exceptional
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
Example
“What an exceptional meal!”
Other meanings
Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability.
Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
“The quality of the beer was exceptional.”
Related words
- eggceptional
- exceptionalist
- exceptionality
- exceptionalness
- nonexceptional
- unexceptional
- exceptional space
- exceptionally
- exceptionalism
- dual-exceptional
- exceptional case-marking
- twice-exceptional
Example sentences
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This definition is adapted from “exceptional” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.