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excellent | gradely |

As adjectives the difference between excellent and gradely

is that excellent is of the highest quality; splendid while gradely is (northern england) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable.

As adverbs the difference between excellent and gradely

is that excellent is (obsolete) excellently while gradely is properly, really.

excellent

English

(wikipedia excellent)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Of the highest quality; splendid.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
  • *(David Hume) (1711-1776)
  • *:an excellent hypocrite
  • *(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
  • *:Their sorrows are most excellent .

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * excellence * excellently * excellentness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Excellently.
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
    • Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

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    gradely

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Northern England) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable
  • * : "My work has meant travelling the world over, to great places and small, but home to me always means Rochdale and its gradely folk."
  • excellent
  • * 1881 , Elizabeth Sophia Watson, Crabtree Fold: A Tale of the Lancashire Moors , page 53:
    • Yo're well off to ha' Betsy Ogden comin' in; she's a gradely worker.
  • handsome, fair
  • * 1863 , , page 13:
    • This is a hard road for a gradely foot like that. Will ye up, lass, and ride behind me?
  • real, proper

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • properly, really

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