Definition of: particular

(pər·tik′yə·lər) adjective
1. Specifying or comprising a part; separate: a particular act.
2. Peculiar or pertaining to a specified person, thing, time, or place; not common or general; private; specific: my particular hobby.
3. Specially noteworthy: of particular importance.
4. Comprising all details or circumstances; circumstantial: a particular description.
5. Marked by, requiring, or giving minute attention; exact in performance or requirement; precise; also, nice in taste; fastidious: particular in dress.
6. Law Separate or separable; being apart from others; special; limited; specific.
7. Logic Including some, not all, of a class: opposed to subalternant or universal: “Some trees are oaks” is a particular proposition.
—noun
1. A separate matter or item, as of a class or number.
2. An individual instance; a single or separate case; a given fact that may be brought under or be the ground of a generalization. [<OF particulier <L particularis concerning a part <particula. See PARTICLE.] Synonyms (adj.): accurate, appropriate, characteristic, circumstantial, definite, detailed, distinct, distinctive, especial, exact, individual, peculiar, separate, single, special. See MINUTE², precise, SQUEAMISH.