particular

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unique and unusual
accidental
alt-
alternative
atypically
be marked out as somethingidiom
flip the scriptidiom
guerrilla
home brew
incongruous
inimitable
personalization
personalized
quaintly
quaintness
quirkily
unique
uniquely
unmatchable
unmatched
unparalleled

Examples from literature

All animals which he took under his especial patronage seemed to have a marked affection for him. 
And, seating herself, she turned immediately to the editorial page, in which the State Department of Charities felt an especial interest this morning. 
Especial emphasis should be placed on the use and importance of fresh, green vegetables. 
So she found that all her friends might freely visit her, and that her father would be received with especial gladness. 
They were under no especial obligation to them. 
When there is no one who needs any especial attention, the hostess nevertheless sits for a time with each of the different groups in order to spend at least a part of the evening with all of her guests. 

Examples of especial

especial
Namely, it is the argument that has been updated towards the end of the previous paragraph which needs especial care.
My especial commendation of the book responds to a matter which is more basic and too often neglected.
Yet, for that very reason, they have an especial place in the city's culture.
He appears to have had little interest in them himself, nor held especial ideas as to how ceremonies could publicly project the monarch.
Of especial interest are those with no amylose since, by analogy, these lines may be mutant for starch synthase (see next section).
The epidemiology of ovine toxoplasmosis with especial respect to control.
For this reason their writings are of especial interest.
This he agreed would be a possible starting point-anything except mechanical devices, which seemed to arouse his especial ire.
Further, these reforms had no especial mandate from the existing electorate, but were engineered by the party elites.
It is well illustrated that besides the shock compressibility, measurements of release isentropes of shocked materials are of especial importance.
Each of these ' registers ' of dependency has especial significance for older people.
Of especial interest was the dramatic increase in their activity levels approximately 1 year before the diagnosed onset of their disorder.
However, the paper has placed especial emphasis on the attitudes and decisions of individual commuters in the two cities.
As regards savages, this is in especial degree the fact.
All this needs to be undertaken with especial sensitivity to changes in the range of language and categories employed.
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