Exceptional vs Excellent - What's the difference?
exceptional | excellent |
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
Better than the average; superior due to rarity.
Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
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:
Excellent is a synonym of exceptional.
As adjectives the difference between exceptional and excellent
is that exceptional is forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare while excellent is of the highest quality; splendid.As an adverb excellent is
excellently.exceptional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- What an exceptional flower!
- The quality of the beer was exceptional.
- an exceptional''' curve; an '''exceptional divisor
Synonyms
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* categoricalDerived terms
* exceptional space * exceptionallyexcellent
English
(wikipedia excellent)Adjective
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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 […].