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exceptional
/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
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What does exceptional mean?
adjective
- Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability.
- Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
noun
- An exception, or something having an exceptional value
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
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Like exceptional emphasis in the tone of a genius, that which would have made mediocrity ridiculous was an addition to recognized power.
These exceptional individuals were capable of thinking more vigorously, of feeling more deeply, and of expressing themselves more forcibly than we are.
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Among the numerous species in both land and water fauna, only a very few are exceptional and turn from right to left.
Audubon mentions having seen it in Maine at the end of October, but this specimen surely must have been an exceptional laggard.
I have observed since that people are quite as apt to agree upon the marvelous and the exceptional as upon simple facts.