exceptional
See also: excepțional
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
exceptional (comparative more exceptional, superlative most exceptional)
- Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- What an exceptional flower!
- Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- The quality of the beer was exceptional.
- (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
- an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:excellent
- egregious (most often used negatively, however)
AntonymsEdit
- (forming an exception): ordinary, categorical, common, general, usual
- (superior due to exception or rarity): ordinary, mediocre, commonplace
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
forming an exception
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superior due to exception or rarity
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NounEdit
exceptional (plural exceptionals)
- An exception, or something having an exceptional value
- 1909, Pediatrics (volume 21, page 276)
- Above and beyond all these exceptionals, by reason of divergencies from the norms of mental and of physical status, there are quite a number of moral defectives.
- 1909, Pediatrics (volume 21, page 276)