exceptionaladjective
uk/ɪkˈsep.ʃən.əl/us/ɪkˈsep.ʃən.əl/approvingB2 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.
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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
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- magnificent
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
- textbook
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exceptionally
adverb uk/ɪkˈsep.ʃən.əl.i/us/ɪkˈsep.ʃən.əl.i/
an exceptionally fine portrait