Exceptional
[ɪk'sepʃ(ə)n(ə)l;ek-] or [ɪk'sɛpʃənl]
Definition
(adj.) deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence; 'special educational provisions for exceptional children' .
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Definition
(a.) Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
Edited by Adrian
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Irregular, unusual, uncommon, unnatural, peculiar, anomalous, abnormal, aberrant, exceptive.
Checker: Rowena
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rare, peculiar, uncommon, irregular, unusual, abnormal
ANT:Common, regular, normal, usual, ordinary
Typist: Zamenhof
Examples
- There is nothing exceptional about the case. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The day was Sunday; but as going to church, except to be married or buried, was exceptional at Egdon, this made little difference. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an exceptional word now and again, he found it very plain sailing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The child, moreover, was really exceptional. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the United States is evidently not exceptional in this respect. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But these were exceptional people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But later many captives were spared to be slaves because they had exceptional gifts or peculiar arts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A Pussum was all right in her way, but she was an exceptional case, and even she mattered extremely little. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Mallory mentions a little fact that bears on this exceptional quality of bodily powers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As a matter of fact, two exceptional people make another world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had done nothing exceptional in marrying--nothing but what society sanctions, and considers an occasion for wreaths and bouquets. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He believed that Winifred had talent, he had seen Gudrun, he knew that she was an exceptional person. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But this very fact of her exceptional indulgence towards him made it the harder to Fred that he must now inevitably sink in her opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To formulate new truths in the world of ideas is the prerogative o f minds gifted with exceptional reason. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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