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What is the adjective for particular?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs particularize and particularise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

particular
  1. (obsolete) Pertaining only to a part of something; partial.
  2. Specific; discrete; concrete.
  3. Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
  4. (obsolete) Known only to an individual person or group; confidential.
  5. Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
  6. (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; precise; fastidious.
  7. Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
  8. (law) Containing a part only; limited.
  9. (law) Holding a particular estate.
  10. (logic) Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “There is a particular group of companies that have outperformed the rest.”
      “His particular style of dress would typically consist of expensive, custom-made business suits.”
      “Quality is an area of particular importance to the long-term viability of our company.”
particularist
  1. (theology) Adhering to particularism.
  2. Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.; partisan.
particularistic
  1. Of or pertaining to particularism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “While it is tempting to call for a pro-modernity balance, this would only be falling into the one-sided, particularistic trap.”
      “On the contrary, ethics is determinately particularistic, at times veering dangerously close to narcissistic.”
      “In general, however, they lose in the course of time this particularistic characteristic.”
particuler
  1. Archaic spelling of particular.
particularized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of particularize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To the extent possible, the pleadings should provide a particularized description of the circumstances that support the granting of temporary relief.”
      “A suggestion that a problem deserves to be considered is far less forceful than a suggestion of a particularized solution.”
particularizing
particularised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of particularise
particularising
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