particular

adjective

1. 1

   obsoletePertaining only to a part of something; partial.

2. 2

   Specific; discrete; concrete.

   I couldn't find the particular model you asked for, but I hope this one will do.

   We knew it was named after John Smith, but nobody knows which particular John Smith.

   I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part / And each particular hair to stand on end

3. 3

   Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.

   I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.

   wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth

4. 4

   obsoleteKnown only to an individual person or group; confidential.

   or these domesticke and particular broiles, Are not the question heere.

5. 5

   Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).

   Particular tension is documented among researchers in the AIDS Program Laboratory of the Center for Infectious Disease

   My five favorite places are, in no particular order, New York, Chicago, Paris, San Francisco and London.

   I didn't have any particular interest in the book.

   He brought no particular news.

6. 6

   Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.

   He is very particular about his food and if it isn't cooked to perfection he will send it back.

   These women are more particular about their appearance.

   There is a scraper as well as a mat, and Mrs. Challenger is most particular.

7. 7

   Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.

   a full and particular account of an accident

8. 8

   Containing a part only; limited.

   a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder

9. 9

   Holding a particular estate.

   a particular tenant

10. 10

    Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.

    a particular proposition, opposed to "universal", e.g. (particular affirmative) "Some men are wise"; (particular negative) "Some men are not wise".

noun

1. 1

   A small individual part of something larger; a detail, a point.

   I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.

2. 2

   obsoleteA person's own individual case.

   Since philosophy could never find any way for tranquillity that might be generally good, let every man in his particular seeke for it.

   temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public[…]or such as concern our particular

3. 3

   A particular case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class. (Opposed to generals, universals.)

   When we examine common words, we find that, broadly speaking, proper names stand for particulars, while other substantives, adjectives, prepositions, and verbs stand for universals.

Forms

plural

particulars

comparative

more particular

superlative

most particular