What is another word for exceptional?

855 synonyms found

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[ ɛksˈɛpʃənə͡l], [ ɛksˈɛpʃənə‍l], [ ɛ_k_s_ˈɛ_p_ʃ_ə_n_əl]

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Opposite words for exceptional:

excellent, wonderful
irregular
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Synonyms for Exceptional:

adj.
•abnormal (adjective)
- off base,
- more spastic,
- un-natural,
- out line,
- most offbase,
- more deviate,
- off color,
- more off base,
- un-orthodox,
- un natural,
- screwy,
- Heteromorphic,
- Heteroclite,
- un expected,
- gross,
- grodiest,
- offbase,
- more heteroclite,
- most off base,
- most heteroclite,
- more heteromorphic,
- more offbase,
- un-expected,
- un orthodox,
- offcolor,
- more curious,
- most spastic,
- most deviate,
- hetero clite,
- grodier,
- hetero-clite,
- most heteromorphic,
- most off-base,
- more off-base,
- funnier.
•advanced (adjective)
- avantgarde,
- more breakthrough,
- leadingedge,
- more cuttingedge,
- un-conventional,
- leading,
- most cutting edge,
- more cutting edge,
- fore-most,
- more leading-edge,
- most cuttingedge,
- more leading edge,
- most breakthrough,
- more leadingedge,
- fore most,
- most leading-edge,
- liberal,
- most cutting-edge,
- most leadingedge,
- more cutting-edge,
- most leading edge,
- cuttingedge,
- un conventional,
- avant garde.
•all (adjective)
- exceptional.
•anomalous (adjective)
- in congruous,
- un typical,
- un representative,
- in-consistent,
- un-typical,
- in consistent,
- more unrepresentative,
- un-representative,
- in-congruous,
- rarest,
- most unrepresentative.
•atypic (adjective)
•banner (adjective)
- redletter,
- red letter.
•better (adjective)
- more fitting,
- more preferred,
- more surpassing,
- most surpassing,
- sur passing,
- more exceeding,
- most finer,
- more prominent,
- sur-passing,
- more finer,
- most exceeding,
- most sharpened,
- more sharpened,
- more suitable.
•big league (adjective)
- playing hard ball,
- front page,
- front-page,
- four-star,
- bigtime,
- high-power,
- strictly business.
•choice (adjective)
- top-drawer,
- top drawer,
- handpicked,
- solid gold,
- first class,
- firstclass,
- elect,
- hand-picked.
•excellent (adjective)
- Piked,
- most desirable,
- premium,
- world-class,
- meritorious.
•excellent, wonderful (adjective)
- marvelous,
- high,
- brainy,
- first-class.
•exceptional (adjective)
- fabulous,
- Wonderous,
- wonderful,
- notable,
- outlandish,
- fantastic,
- sensational,
- novel,
- miraculous,
- exotic,
- striking.
•extraordinary (adjective)
- extra-ordinary,
- fabber,
- in credible,
- sur-prising,
- un familiar,
- unfamiliar,
- in-credible,
- fabbest,
- un-familiar,
- flasher,
- in-conceivable,
- sur prising,
- flashest,
- in conceivable.
•extreme (adjective)
- out and out,
- egregious,
- out of proportion,
- stern,
- overkill,
- extreme.
•fine (adjective)
- most fivestar,
- un-real,
- firststring,
- well-made,
- re fined,
- most giltedged,
- most first string,
- most gilt-edged,
- fivestar,
- most firststring,
- more first string,
- top-pest,
- more gilt edged,
- more five-star,
- more first-string,
- gilt edged,
- more firststring,
- well made,
- most gilt edged,
- most five star,
- good looking,
- more five star,
- five star,
- ex pensive,
- more gilt-edged,
- most five-star,
- most first-string,
- wellmade,
- not too shabby,
- top pest,
- more fivestar,
- more giltedged,
- ex-pensive.
•first-rate (adjective)
- highestquality,
- more bang up,
- most bang-up,
- most highest-quality,
- more best quality,
- most bangup,
- bestquality,
- bangup,
- of highest type,
- more bestquality,
- more bang-up,
- more highest-quality,
- most best-quality,
- most highest quality,
- of the first water,
- most best quality,
- top of line,
- of first water,
- most highestquality,
- more best-quality,
- more bangup,
- most first rate,
- top line,
- of the highest type,
- most bestquality,
- top the line,
- firstrate,
- more highest quality,
- more highestquality,
- most bang up,
- first rate.
•good (adjective)
- rad,
- super-excellent,
- super-eminent,
- Supereminent,
- up to snuff,
- recherche,
- Superexcellent,
- tip top,
- unmarred,
- reputable,
- bullier.
•great (adjective)
- most hellacious,
- more super-duper,
- super duper,
- un qualified,
- more superduper,
- most superduper,
- more super duper,
- more hellacious,
- out sight,
- out of world,
- most dynamite,
- most super duper,
- greater,
- un-qualified,
- un-mitigated,
- more dynamite,
- out this world,
- un mitigated,
- most super-duper,
- out world.
•heavyweight (adjective)
- bluechip,
- heavyweight.
•important (adjective)
- importunate,
- big league,
- mattering much,
- of note,
- of moment,
- far-reaching,
- of substance.
•incomparable (adjective)
- matchless,
- second to none,
- unrivalled,
- beyond compare,
- unmatchable,
- pre-eminent,
- incomparable,
- unequalled.
•infrequent (adjective)
- few,
- semioccasional,
- few and far between.
•intelligent (adjective)
- well-informed,
- all there,
- more intelligent.
•intense (adjective)
- in tenser,
- in-tensest,
- in-tenser,
- more all-consuming,
- un-duest,
- all consuming,
- most allconsuming,
- in-tensive,
- in-tense,
- more intensified,
- un due,
- more allconsuming,
- most all-consuming,
- most all consuming,
- in tensive,
- un duest,
- allconsuming,
- most intensified,
- un-due,
- more all consuming,
- un duer,
- in tensest,
- un-duer,
- in tense.
•interesting (adjective)
- readable,
- magnetic.
•irregular (adjective)
- deviant,
- unique,
- inconsistent,
- distinct,
- unordinary,
- scarce,
- quirky,
- unimaginable,
- unheard-of,
- atypical.
•isolated (adjective)
- retired,
- farout,
- re tired,
- re-mote,
- out-lying,
- un-accompanied,
- more sequestered,
- most apart,
- with-drawn,
- un-frequented,
- most sequestered,
- with drawn,
- un frequented,
- un related,
- re-tired,
- more apart,
- un-related,
- out lying,
- un accompanied.
•limited (adjective)
- retarded.
•major-league (adjective)
•noteworthy (adjective)
- most highprofile,
- more murder,
- more high-profile,
- most stand-out,
- most nameable,
- under-lined,
- most murder,
- mindblowing,
- most high-profile,
- more highprofile,
- nameable,
- more high profile,
- under lined,
- endest,
- splashest,
- most underlined,
- highprofile,
- more stand out,
- more stand-out,
- Ender,
- mind blowing,
- most stand out,
- more nameable,
- more underlined,
- most high profile.
•occasional (adjective)
- un frequent,
- most unfrequent,
- off on,
- un-frequent,
- more unfrequent.
•odd/oddball (adjective)
- freakest,
- most off the wall,
- most character,
- more off the wall,
- most weirdo,
- more character,
- more off-the-wall,
- most off-the-wall,
- more oddball,
- oddest,
- more weirdo.
•Other relevant words: (adjective)
- great,
- numbskull,
- breaking new ground,
- primo,
- gorked,
- leading-edge,
- first-rate,
- mostest,
- splendiferous,
- grody,
- splasher,
- world class,
- extraordinary,
- off the beaten track,
- better,
- interesting,
- splendid,
- Arrestive,
- anomalous,
- peculiar,
- gilt-edged,
- blue chip,
- abnormal,
- five-star,
- off beaten track,
- out of line,
- high-profile,
- stand-out,
- uncommon,
- privileged,
- important,
- strange,
- spanking,
- highest-quality,
- uncharacteristic,
- unparalleled,
- tremendous,
- superior,
- out of the ordinary,
- bang up,
- first-string,
- higher quality,
- extraordinaire,
- all-consuming,
- out-standing,
- superduper,
- underachieving,
- Subtile,
- best quality,
- steller,
- infrequent,
- yo-yo,
- zero cool,
- un-ordinary,
- unrepresentative,
- freaker,
- single,
- uncustomary,
- choice,
- highest quality,
- dumdum,
- isolated,
- unforgettable,
- STANDOUT,
- off beaten path,
- brilliant,
- mentally defective,
- intense,
- off-the-wall,
- lamebrained,
- advanced,
- top of the line,
- goodlooking,
- remarkable,
- out-of-this-world,
- good,
- one of a kind,
- not for publication,
- Unfrequent,
- unthinkable,
- fab,
- Unparagoned,
- souped up,
- YOYO,
- off-base,
- best-quality,
- top-hole,
- mondo,
- cutting-edge,
- super-duper,
- bang-up,
- excellent,
- spastic,
- particular,
- uncanny,
- the end,
- prodigious,
- unaccustomed,
- major-league,
- giltedged,
- intelligent,
- extra ordinary,
- halfwitted,
- retardo,
- signal,
- crashing,
- something else,
- special,
- not habitual,
- great big.
•out of the ordinary (adjective)
- out the ordinary,
- out of ordinary,
- one of kind,
- one a kind,
- one kind,
- out ordinary.
•outstanding (adjective)
- more hundred-proof,
- more hundredproof,
- most hundred-proof,
- most out-of-this-world,
- more out of sight,
- most hundredproof,
- hundredproof,
- hundred-proof,
- most steller,
- more out-of-sight,
- topsest,
- more primo,
- most out of sight,
- most out-of-sight,
- pre-dominant,
- most mostest,
- out-of-sight,
- most primo,
- wellknown,
- more out of this world,
- more mostest,
- most out of this world,
- out standing,
- topser,
- well known,
- pre dominant,
- hundred proof,
- more out-of-this-world,
- more steller,
- most hundred proof,
- more hundred proof.
•peculiar (adjective)
- un-customary,
- most uncustomary,
- un customary,
- wayout,
- more uncustomary.
•privileged (adjective)
- in side,
- under one hat,
- under ones hat,
- under hat,
- on qt,
- top secret,
- for eyes only,
- off record.
•qualified (adjective)
- limited,
- Albeit,
- notwithstanding,
- mitigated,
- Stipulated,
- qualified,
- provisional,
- tempered,
- reserved,
- conditional.
•remarkable (adjective)
- most arrestive,
- more smashing,
- more arrestive,
- most smashing.
•retarded (adjective)
- dummiest,
- more lamebrained,
- most gorked,
- slowwitted,
- most dumbbell,
- most lamebrained,
- most yo-yo,
- most underachieving,
- re-tardo,
- more retardo,
- subnormal,
- slow witted,
- more yoyo,
- slow-witted,
- more yo-yo,
- under achieving,
- most yo yo,
- feeble minded,
- simple minded,
- sub-normal,
- dummier,
- more dumbo,
- yo yo,
- most dumdum,
- most yoyo,
- birdbrained,
- more pinhead,
- most retardo,
- more yo yo,
- sub normal,
- more dumbbell,
- most numbskull,
- half witted,
- dim witted,
- more gorked,
- more underachieving,
- more numbskull,
- most subnormal,
- most dumbo,
- more subnormal,
- under-achieving,
- most pinhead,
- re tardo,
- more dumdum.
•sensational (adjective)
- ex citing,
- most agitating,
- more agitating.
•signal (adjective)
- in dividual,
- eyecatching,
- eye catching,
- in-dividual.
•single (adjective)
- unalloyed,
- not general,
- singled out,
- unmixed,
- singled-out,
- uncompounded,
- unshared,
- not public,
- unitary,
- unblended,
- without equal.
•special (adjective)
- Earmarked.
•splendid (adjective)
- more splendiferous,
- un-surpassed,
- sub lime,
- un surpassed,
- re-splendent,
- sub-lime,
- very good,
- most splendiferous.
•standout (adjective)
- more attenuated,
- subtiler,
- most attenuated,
- most attenuate,
- subtilest,
- sub tiler,
- sub tile,
- sub-tiler,
- sub-tile,
- more attenuate.
•strange (adjective)
- un seasoned,
- in-experienced,
- un accountable,
- un-seasoned,
- in experienced.
•successful (adjective)
- banner.
•superior (adjective)
- good quality,
- superincumbent,
- of higher rank,
- a cut above,
- overlying,
- superhuman,
- high-caliber.
•tiptop (adjective)
- upper most,
- tiptop.
•topflight (adjective)
- braggest,
- topflight,
- top flight,
- more quality,
- most quality,
- blueribbon.
•tophole (adjective)
- top hole,
- tophole.
•tremendous (adjective)
- blimper,
- most cracking,
- more cracking,
- more mondo,
- whaler,
- more whopper,
- blimpest,
- most humongous,
- whalest,
- most whopper,
- more humongous,
- most mondo.
•unaccustomed (adjective)
- un-accustomed,
- un known,
- un accustomed,
- un-known.
•uncanny (adjective)
- Inexplainable,
- magical,
- supranormal,
- scarier,
- supernormal,
- scary.
•uncommon (adjective)
- most outre,
- un-common,
- un commonest,
- out way,
- un-commonest,
- out of way,
- un common,
- un-commoner,
- out the way,
- more outre,
- un commoner.
•unforgettable (adjective)
- not to be forgotten,
- Rememberable.
•unheard-of (adjective)
- unheard of,
- Unrenowned,
- little-known,
- little known.
•unimaginable (adjective)
- beyond wildest dreams,
- in describable,
- in comprehensible,
- in-cogitable,
- un-knowable,
- unknowable,
- more unknowable,
- in effable,
- in cogitable,
- in-effable,
- most incogitable,
- in-describable,
- more incogitable,
- more inapprehensible,
- in apprehensible,
- un imaginable,
- Inapprehensible,
- most inapprehensible,
- un knowable,
- in-apprehensible,
- most unknowable,
- not understandable,
- un-imaginable,
- Incogitable.
•unique (adjective)
- more nonpareil,
- most nonpareil,
- un paragoned,
- unexampled,
- un exampled,
- more unparagoned,
- un equaled,
- most unparagoned,
- most unexampled,
- un-equaled,
- un-paragoned,
- un-exampled,
- more unexampled.
•unmarred (adjective)
- more unbroken,
- un harmed,
- most uninjured,
- un marred,
- in-tact,
- un-blemished,
- un hurt,
- un injured,
- un-injured,
- uninjured,
- un-marred,
- un broken,
- un-impaired,
- more uninjured,
- in tact,
- un-broken,
- un impaired,
- un damaged,
- most unbroken,
- un-hurt,
- un-harmed,
- un-damaged.
•unordinary (adjective)
- un ordinary.
•unparalleled (adjective)
- un-paralleled,
- Champer,
- un paralleled,
- alltime,
- champest,
- all time.
•unthinkable (adjective)
- beyond possibility,
- in supportable,
- beyond belief,
- out of question,
- in-supportable,
- un thinkable,
- out the question,
- out question,
- un-thinkable.
•unusual (adjective)
- memorable,
- Atypic,
- unwonted.
•unwonted (adjective)
- un-wonted,
- un wonted.
•variant (adjective)
- more differing,
- de-rived,
- de rived,
- most differing.
n.
- surprising,
- offbeat.
- wonder,
- incredible.
•Other relevant words: (noun)
- exceeding,
- aberrant,
- unprecedented,
- unusual,
- rare,
- singular,
- irregular,
- odd,
- surpassing,
- variant,
- phenomenal,
- noteworthy,
- olympian,
- especial,
- outstanding.
Other synonyms:
- excessive,
- bodacious,
- furthest,
- upward,
- crucial,
- surplus,
- exemplary,
- double,
- undue,
- bitching,
- out of sight,
- upwards,
- outnumber,
- kick-ass,
- top-of-the-range,
- aplenty,
- record-breaking,
- fantabulous,
- farther,
- rather,
- habitual,
- too,
- extracurricular,
- hellacious,
- shit-hot,
- overmuch,
- top-end,
- plus,
- superb,
- backup,
- peachy,
- doubly,
- high-grade,
- unconscionable,
- tip-top,
- excess,
- deluge,
- more.
- beyond,
- fine,
- dandy,
- top-shelf,
- beautiful,
- wonderfully,
- record,
- occasional,
- blue-ribbon,
- preeminent,
- awesome,
- The,
- goodly,
- overdone,
- further,
- towering,
- distinguished,
- raised.
- polished,
- decent,
- blinding,
- prize.
- superlative,
- above,
- quality,
- neat,
- over,
- massive.
- magnificent,
- capital.
- classic.

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Equivalence
- Adjective
  unusual, remarkable, extreme, outstanding, extraordinary, splendid, fantastic, uncommon, unique.
- Proper noun, singular
  outstanding, extraordinary, unique.
Forward Entailment
- Proper noun, singular
  exception, exceptions.
- Noun, plural
  exceptions.
Reverse Entailment
- Proper noun, singular
  exceptionally.
Independent
- Adjective
  magnificent, brilliant, phenomenal, rare, unprecedented, exclusive, singular, one-time, extra, impressive, spectacular, terrific, especial, exciting, peculiar, atypical, exemplary, enormous, unparalleled, incredible, utmost, Excepted, privileged, amazing, prominent, formidable, immense, sterling, marvellous, notable, pre-eminent, dramatic, eminent, paramount, huge, stellar, non-routine, astonishing, crucial, extremely, specialized, conspicuous, significant, anomalous, non-recurrent, vital, first-rate, considerable, overwhelming, distinct, admirable, opt-out, non-recurring.
- Proper noun, singular
  attaches.
- Noun, plural
  happenings.
- Noun, singular or mass
  exception.
Other Related
- Adjective
  wonderful, tremendous, distinguished.
- Proper noun, singular
  distinguished.

Antonyms for Exceptional:

adj.
- excellent, wonderful
  bad, poor, inconsiderable.
- irregular
  expected, mediocre, regular, unexceptional, general, conventional, inferior, inconsequential, Familiar, usual, common, unnoteworthy, typical, similar, standard, ok, ordinary, commonplace, unimportant, normal, like, unremarkable, insignificant.
- Other antonyms:
  cuckoo, insane, able-bodied, mindless, brainless, robust, moronic, ignorant, balmy, lowbrow, lamebrain, fit, illiterate, unthinking, crazy, harebrained, obtuse, unwise, softheaded, hearty, dopey, dorky, bouncing, tomfool, feebleminded, vacuous, hale, healthy, uneducated, crackpot, daft, half-witted, loony, Daffy, nutty, nonsensical, asinine, preposterous, opaque, lunatic, fool, mad, screwball, witless, featherheaded, zany, nonintellectual, wacky, airheaded, whole, dim-witted, wholesome, silly, idiotic, dense, soft, simple, brain dead, dull, absurd, bubbleheaded, thickheaded, half-baked, unimpaired, imbecile, lunkheaded, birdbrained, untaught, empty-headed, chipper, senseless, sound, pinheaded, dunderheaded, dumb, simpleminded, thick-witted, boneheaded, cockeyed, dotty, dippy, gormless, well, unintelligent, uninformed, fatuous, unintellectual, Weak-minded, dim, slow, slow-witted, doltish, unsmart, kooky, sappy, thick, Chuckleheaded.
n.
- other_words
  categorical.

Homophones for Exceptional:

exhibition hall.

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