Excellent vs Admirable - What's the difference?
excellent | admirable | Related terms |
Of the highest quality; splendid.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
Exceptionally good of its kind.
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*(David Hume) (1711-1776)
*:an excellent hypocrite
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Their sorrows are most excellent .
(obsolete) Excellently.
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Deserving of the highest esteem or admiration.
Excellent is a related term of admirable.
As adjectives the difference between excellent and admirable
is that excellent is of the highest quality; splendid while admirable is deserving of the highest esteem or admiration.As an adverb excellent
is (obsolete) excellently.excellent
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Synonyms
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* excellence * excellently * excellentnessAdverb
(en adverb)- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It's admirable that Shelley overcame her handicap and excelled in her work.