What is another word for exceptional?
Pronunciation:
[ ɛksˈɛpʃənə͡l], [ ɛksˈɛpʃənəl], [ ɛ_k_s_ˈɛ_p_ʃ_ə_n_əl]
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Similar words for exceptional:
- abnormal (adjective)
- advanced (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- anomalous (adjective)
- atypic (adjective)
- banner (adjective)
- better (adjective)
- big league (adjective)
- choice (adjective)
- excellent (adjective)
- excellent, wonderful (adjective)
- exceptional (adjective)
- extraordinary (adjective)
- extreme (adjective)
- fine (adjective)
- first-rate (adjective)
- good (adjective)
- great (adjective)
- heavyweight (adjective)
- important (adjective)
- incomparable (adjective)
- infrequent (adjective)
- intelligent (adjective)
- intense (adjective)
- interesting (adjective)
- irregular (adjective)
- isolated (adjective)
- limited (adjective)
- major-league (adjective)
- noteworthy (adjective)
- occasional (adjective)
- odd/oddball (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- out of the ordinary (adjective)
- outstanding (adjective)
- peculiar (adjective)
- privileged (adjective)
- qualified (adjective)
- remarkable (adjective)
- retarded (adjective)
- sensational (adjective)
- signal (adjective)
- single (adjective)
- special (adjective)
- splendid (adjective)
- standout (adjective)
- strange (adjective)
- successful (adjective)
- superior (adjective)
- tiptop (adjective)
- topflight (adjective)
- tophole (adjective)
- tremendous (adjective)
- unaccustomed (adjective)
- uncanny (adjective)
- uncommon (adjective)
- unforgettable (adjective)
- unheard-of (adjective)
- unimaginable (adjective)
- unique (adjective)
- unmarred (adjective)
- unordinary (adjective)
- unparalleled (adjective)
- unthinkable (adjective)
- unusual (adjective)
- unwonted (adjective)
- variant (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
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.
- 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.
- in congruous,
- un typical,
- un representative,
- in-consistent,
- un-typical,
- in consistent,
- more unrepresentative,
- un-representative,
- in-congruous,
- rarest,
- most unrepresentative.
- 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.
- fabulous,
- Wonderous,
- wonderful,
- notable,
- outlandish,
- fantastic,
- sensational,
- novel,
- miraculous,
- exotic,
- striking.
- extra-ordinary,
- fabber,
- in credible,
- sur-prising,
- un familiar,
- unfamiliar,
- in-credible,
- fabbest,
- un-familiar,
- flasher,
- in-conceivable,
- sur prising,
- flashest,
- in conceivable.
- 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.
- 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.
- rad,
- super-excellent,
- super-eminent,
- Supereminent,
- up to snuff,
- recherche,
- Superexcellent,
- tip top,
- unmarred,
- reputable,
- bullier.
- 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.
- matchless,
- second to none,
- unrivalled,
- beyond compare,
- unmatchable,
- pre-eminent,
- incomparable,
- unequalled.
- 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.
- deviant,
- unique,
- inconsistent,
- distinct,
- unordinary,
- scarce,
- quirky,
- unimaginable,
- unheard-of,
- atypical.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- limited,
- Albeit,
- notwithstanding,
- mitigated,
- Stipulated,
- qualified,
- provisional,
- tempered,
- reserved,
- conditional.
- 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.
- unalloyed,
- not general,
- singled out,
- unmixed,
- singled-out,
- uncompounded,
- unshared,
- not public,
- unitary,
- unblended,
- without equal.
- more splendiferous,
- un-surpassed,
- sub lime,
- un surpassed,
- re-splendent,
- sub-lime,
- very good,
- most splendiferous.
- more attenuated,
- subtiler,
- most attenuated,
- most attenuate,
- subtilest,
- sub tiler,
- sub tile,
- sub-tiler,
- sub-tile,
- more attenuate.
- blimper,
- most cracking,
- more cracking,
- more mondo,
- whaler,
- more whopper,
- blimpest,
- most humongous,
- whalest,
- most whopper,
- more humongous,
- most mondo.
- most outre,
- un-common,
- un commonest,
- out way,
- un-commonest,
- out of way,
- un common,
- un-commoner,
- out the way,
- more outre,
- un commoner.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
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- surprising,
- offbeat.
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- wonder,
- incredible.
Other synonyms:
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•
- 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.
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- beyond,
- fine,
- dandy,
- top-shelf,
- beautiful,
- wonderfully,
- record,
- occasional,
- blue-ribbon,
- preeminent,
- awesome,
- The,
- goodly,
- overdone,
- further,
- towering,
- distinguished,
- raised.
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- magnificent,
- capital.
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- classic.
How to use "Exceptional" in context?
Exceptional, simply put, describes something or someone that stands out from the rest. It can be used as a noun or a adjective, and is often used as a benchmark to compare other things or people. The word has positive connotations, and is usually used in a positive way. For example, "Alan is an exceptional student." This means that Alan is doing particularly well and is in a class of students that are above average. Alternatively, "That restaurant is exceptional in taste." This means that the restaurant offers an unusually good dish, and is not just a run-of-the-mill place.
Paraphrases for Exceptional:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, outstanding, remarkable, splendid, uncommon, unique, unusual.
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Proper noun, singular
extraordinary, outstanding, unique.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
exception, exceptions.
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Noun, plural
exceptions.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
exceptionally.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Adjective
admirable, amazing, anomalous, astonishing, atypical, brilliant, considerable, conspicuous, crucial, distinct, dramatic, eminent, enormous, especial, exciting, exclusive, exemplary, extra, extremely, first-rate, formidable, huge, immense, impressive, incredible, magnificent, marvellous, notable, overwhelming, paramount, peculiar, phenomenal, privileged, prominent, rare, significant, singular, specialized, spectacular, stellar, sterling, terrific, unparalleled, unprecedented, utmost, vital, Excepted, pre-eminent, one-time, opt-out, non-recurring, non-recurrent, non-routine.
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Proper noun, singular
attaches.
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Noun, plural
happenings.
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Noun, singular or mass
exception.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
distinguished, tremendous, wonderful.
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Proper noun, singular
distinguished.
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Adjective
Homophones for Exceptional:
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