Having no match; without equal.
[T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength.
Having no mate.
In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.
Without the use of matches for ignition.
a matchless stove
From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”),...
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