single

single is a 6-letter English word with 27 senses as adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
2. adjective. Alone; having no companion.
3. adjective. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
4. adjective. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
5. adjective. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
6. adjective. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
7. adjective. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
8. adjective. Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
9. transitive verb. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
10. transitive verb. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
11. transitive verb. To take alone, or one by one.
12. intransitive verb. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
13. noun. A unit; one; as, to score a single.
14. noun. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
15. noun. A handful of gleaned grain.
16. noun. A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
17. noun. A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
18. noun. a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base

    Synonyms: bingle

19. noun. the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

    "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"

    "they had lunch at one"

    Synonyms: ace, one, unity

20. verb. hit a single

    "the batter singled to left field"

21. adjective. being or characteristic of a single thing or person

    "individual drops of rain"

    "please mark the individual pages"

    Synonyms: individual

22. adjective. not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective

    "judging a contest with a single eye"

    "a single devotion to duty"

    Synonyms: exclusive, undivided

23. adjective. not married or related to the unmarried state

    "unmarried men and women"

    "unmarried life"

    Synonyms: unmarried

24. adjective. having uniform application

    "a single legal code for all"

25. adjective. characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing

    "an individual serving"

    "single occupancy"

    Synonyms: individual

26. adjective. existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual

    "upon the hill stood a single tower"

    "had but a single thought which was to escape"

27. adjective. used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals

    "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals"

Synonyms

bingle, ace, one, unity, individual, exclusive, undivided, unmarried

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in single:

glinse, ingles, lignes, seling, slinge

Common word forms

singled, singler, singles, singling, singleness

Words from these letters

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