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Another word for exceptional

Adjective

  1. Far beyond what is usual, normal, or customary

    2. See also:

    usual

    better

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Another word for exceptional

Modifier
    2. See also:

    unusual

    excellent

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Sentence Examples

  • He knows there is someone or something out there that has weird and exceptional abilities.

  • He is such an exceptional boy.

  • Even an exceptional salesperson has an imperfect memory.

  • He was always hearing such words as: "With your remarkable kindness," or, "With your excellent heart," "You are yourself so honorable Count," or, "Were he as clever as you," and so on, till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent.

  • At most stations a negative potential gradient is exceptional, unless during rain or thunder.

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