Singular
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A form of a word that refers to only one person or thing.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Being only one of a larger population. Being the only one of the kind; unique. Distinguished by superiority, coming across as such. Being out of the ordinary, coming across as such. Referring to only one thing or person. Having no inverse. Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
Example sentence: 'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.
Peculiar
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
Example sentence: The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.