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exceptional
What does exceptional mean?
exceptional (adjective): far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use exceptional in a sentence?
- An exceptional memory. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce exceptional?
/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does exceptional come from?
From exception + -al.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of exceptional?
Words related to exceptional
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “exceptional” mean?
of, facing, situated in, or related to the east
Not quite: that's what eastern means.
unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses
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far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
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of, facing, situated in, or related to the west
Not quite: that's what western means.
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