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English
Etymology
exception + -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- Hyphenation: ex‧cep‧tion‧al
Adjective
exceptional (comparative more exceptional, superlative most exceptional)
- Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
What an exceptional meal!
- Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
The quality of the beer was exceptional.
- (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
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Translations
superior due to exception or rarity
- Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَائِيّ (istiṯnāʔiyy)
- Azerbaijani: müstəsna
- Belarusian: вынятко́вы (vynjatkóvy), адме́нны (admjénny), адме́тны (be) (admjétny)
- Bulgarian: отли́чен (bg) (otlíčen), изключи́телен (bg) (izključítelen)
- Catalan: excepcional
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 優越／优越 (zh) (yōuyuè), 傑出／杰出 (zh) (jiéchū), 優異／优异 (zh) (yōuyì), 非凡 (zh) (fēifán), 超群 (zh) (chāoqún)
- Czech: výjimečný (cs) m
- Danish: enestående, eksceptionel
- Finnish: poikkeuksellinen (fi), erinomainen (fi)
- French: exceptionnel (fr)
- Friulian: famôs
- German: außergewöhnlich (de)
- Greek: εξαιρετικός (el) m (exairetikós)
- Hebrew: מְצֻיָּן (he) m (metzuyyán)
- Hungarian: kivételes (hu), rendkívüli (hu)
- Irish: eisceachtúil
- Italian: eccezionale (it)
- Japanese: 並外れた (ja) (namihazureta), 別格の (bekkaku no), 非凡な (ja) (hibon na)
- Latin: eximius
- Malayalam: അസാധാരണ (ml) (asādhāraṇa)
- Maori: inati
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: eksepsjonell
- Nynorsk: eksepsjonell
- Polish: wyjątkowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: excepcional (pt), excecional (Portugal)
- Russian: исключи́тельный (ru) (isključítelʹnyj), отли́чный (ru) (otlíčnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: air leth
- Spanish: excepcional (es)
- Ukrainian: винятко́вий (vynjatkóvyj), відмі́нний (uk) (vidmínnyj)
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Noun
exceptional (plural exceptionals)
- An exception, or something having an exceptional value
1909, Pediatrics, volume 21, page 276:Above and beyond all these exceptionals, by reason of divergencies from the norms of mental and of physical status, there are quite a number of moral defectives.