Excellent vs Best - What's the difference?
excellent | best |
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.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
(good).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Thou serpent! That name best befits thee.
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:He prayeth best', who loveth ' best / All things both great and small.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best' and ' best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Had we best retire? I see a storm.
*(William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
*:Had I not best go to her?
(uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
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(countable) The person (or persons) who is (are) most excellent.
something that is best
to surpass in skill or achievement.
To beat in a contest;
* 2010 , T. William Phillips, Restless Heart , page 16
As adjectives the difference between excellent and best
is that excellent is of the highest quality; splendid while best is superlative of good.As adverbs the difference between excellent and best
is that excellent is excellently while best is superlative of well POS=adverb.As a noun best is
the supreme effort one can make, or has made.As a verb best is
to surpass in skill or achievement.As a proper noun Best is
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English
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* 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 […].
Statistics
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English
Adjective
(head)- When he is best , he is a little worse than a man.
- Heaven's last, best gift
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Derived terms
* bestnessAntonyms
* worstAdverb
(head)Noun
- I did my best .
- My personal best in that race is eighteen minutes, four seconds.
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Verb
(en verb)- "You did not win because I was sloppy. You bested me, Uncle. I've never seen you fight like that before.”