EXCEPTIONAL | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of exceptional in English exceptionaladjective   approving uk /ɪkˈsep.ʃən.əl/ us /ɪkˈsep.ʃən.əl/ Add to word list Add to word list B2 much greater than usual, especially in skill, intelligence, quality, etc.: an exceptional student exceptional powers of concentration The company has shown exceptional growth over the past two years. Synonyms especial formal special (NOT USUAL) good or important because of unusual qualities

• specialAre you doing anything special for your birthday?
• exceptionalTheir standard of acting was very high but there was one exceptional performance.
• outstandingHe accepted an award for outstanding achievement in baseball.
• extraordinaryHer capacity to remember things is extraordinary.
• deluxeThe salesman tried to sell us the deluxe model.

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• Judges only grant marriage annulments in exceptional circumstances.
• a woman of exceptional perspicacity
• At £30 a night, this hotel represents exceptional value for money.
• The peninsula is a lightly populated area of natural beauty with exceptional wildlife.
• an outstanding garden of exceptional beauty

Extremely good

• absolutely fabulous
• admirable
• all killer no filler idiom
• amazing
• amazingly
• five-star
• gold-plated
• gourmet
• greatness
• have no parallel phrase
• high-class
• par excellence
• slay
• soar
• sock
• splendid
• splendidly
• stellar
• stupendously
• wonderfully

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exceptionally (Definition of exceptional from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

exceptional | American Dictionary

exceptionaladjective us /ɪkˈsep·ʃə·nəl/ Add to word list Add to word list not like most others of the same type; unusual: This is an exceptional contract, guaranteeing no layoffs. Exceptional also means unusually good: Davis has done an exceptional job of reporting.

exceptionally

adverb us /ɪkˈsep·ʃə·nəl·i/ The drawing had exceptionally fine detail. (Definition of exceptional from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

exceptional | Business English

exceptionaladjective uk /ɪkˈsepʃənəl/ us Add to word list Add to word list unusual; not what happens regularly or is expected: The industry is anxious to stress that this is an exceptional case. These are exceptional circumstances.in exceptional circumstances/cases This right to sell the shares will apply only in exceptional cases. A £2.5m exceptional charge from redundancies contributed to full-year losses. exceptional costs much greater or better than usual: The effort put in by the team over the last five days has been exceptional. Her leadership style produced exceptional results.

exceptionally

adverb The quality of our products is exceptionally high. an exceptionally competitive marketplace (Definition of exceptional from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of exceptional

exceptional Eight building phases on a single farmyard are exceptional, but three or four overlapping ground plans are quite common. From the Cambridge English Corpus Purely indefinite readings appear to be more exceptional, yet in some contexts they provide a plausible interpretation of a given gerund construction. From the Cambridge English Corpus Both are lost to the ideological ' construction' of selfhood, exceptional or otherwise. From the Cambridge English Corpus In particular, we shall argue that time-independent intermediate shocks can exist in the real world, but are exceptional. From the Cambridge English Corpus The foreign learners were relatively accurate at categorizing regular words but extremely inaccurate at categorizing exceptional words. From the Cambridge English Corpus But in economic history, as we know, works of this character are exceptional. From the Cambridge English Corpus In fact, exceptional creative achievers are most likely to come from family pedigrees that display elevated rates of various psychological disorders. From the Cambridge English Corpus Despite exceptional recent research progress in understanding elastic-fibre assembly and function, many questions remain to be addressed. From the Cambridge English Corpus Masked exercises, which to us seem completely normal, were at that time exceptional. From the Cambridge English Corpus Analysts are bewildered by the exceptional endurance exhibited by most democratic administrations. From the Cambridge English Corpus As we show, this exceptional development is determined by the ways in which mobile phones have been adapted to the local conditions of everyday life. From the Cambridge English Corpus His age and ability indicate that the experience of provincial leadership is, in the exceptional case, viable politically. From the Cambridge English Corpus These results speak to the outliers found in such research, exceptional learners whose abilities we scarcely understand. From the Cambridge English Corpus Taking regular individualised lessons in what might be regarded as the usual fashion for instrument tuition was exceptional for these learners. From the Cambridge English Corpus These exceptional quality crystals introduce negligible aberration into the frequency doubled beam. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of exceptional?

Translations of exceptional

in Chinese (Traditional) （尤指在技能、才智、品質等方面）卓越的，傑出的，不同凡響的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （尤指在技能、才智、品质等方面）卓越的，杰出的，不同凡响的… See more in Spanish excepcional, excepcional [masculine-feminine]… See more in Portuguese excepcional, excepcional [masculine-feminine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian असाधारण, अपवादात्मक… See more 特別に優れた, 特（とく）に優（すぐ）れた, 例外的（れいがいてき）な… See more ender, müstesna, olağanüstü… See more eceptionne/-elle, d’exception, exceptionnel… See more excepcional… See more uitzonderlijk… See more வழக்கத்தை விட மிக அதிகம், குறிப்பாக திறன், புத்திசாலித்தனம்… See more असाधारण, असामान्य, विशेष… See more અસાધારણ, અસામાન્ય, વિશેષ… See more usædvanlig, exceptionel… See more exceptionell, sällsynt… See more luar biasa… See more außergewöhnlich… See more eksepsjonell, enestående, usedvanlig… See more استثنائی, غیر معمولی… See more винятковий, незвичайний… See more అసామాన్య/ సాధారణమైన దానికంటే ఎంతో గొప్పది, ముఖ్యంగా నైపుణ్యం, తెలివి నాణ్యత మొదలైనవాటిలో… See more ব্যতিক্রমী / অসাধারণ… See more neobyčejný… See more luar biasa… See more ยอดเยี่ยม… See more khác thường… See more wyjątkowy… See more 예외적일 정도로 뛰어난… See more eccezionale… See more Need a translator?

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