Outstanding vs Excellent - What's the difference?
outstanding | excellent |
prominent or noticeable; standing out from others
exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority
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projecting outwards
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unresolved; not settled or finished
owed as a debt
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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:
As adjectives the difference between outstanding and excellent
is that outstanding is prominent or noticeable; standing out from others while excellent is of the highest quality; splendid.As an adverb excellent is
excellently.outstanding
English
Adjective
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Derived terms
* outstandinglyAnagrams
*excellent
English
(wikipedia excellent)Adjective
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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 […].