About The Word Excellent
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What's The Definition Of Excellent?
[adj] of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Excellent: fantabulous | first-class | superior Related Terms | Find terms related to Excellent: a cut above | above | adept | admirable | adroit | advantageous | aesthetic | aggrandized | ahead | Al | apotheosized | apt | artistic | ascendant | Attic | auspicious | authoritative | awesome | bang-up | banner | beatified | beneficial | benevolent | better | big | blue-ribbon | bon | bonny | bonzer | boss | bravura | braw | brilliant | bueno | bully | bunkum | canonized | capital | capping | champion | chaste | choice | chosen | classic | classical | clean | clever | cogent | commendable | cool | coordinated | crack | crackerjack | cunning | cute | daedal | Daedalian | dandy | deft | deified | dexterous | dextrous | diplomatic | distinguished | eclipsing | elegant | elevated | eminent | ennobled | enshrined | enthroned | estimable | exalted | exceeding | excelling | exceptional | expedient | expert | extraordinary | fair | famous | fancy | fantastic | favorable | fine | finer | first-class | first-rate | first-string | glorified | good | goodish | goodly | graceful | Grade A | grand | great | greater | handy | healthy | hear | held in awe | helpful | high | high and mighty | higher | immortal | immortalized | in ascendancy | in good taste | in the ascendant | ingenious | kind | laudable | lofty | magic | magisterial | magnified | major | marked | masterful | masterly | matchless | mighty | neat | nice | no mean | noble | nonpareil | notable | noteworthy | number one | of choice | of quality | one up on | ordinary | outstanding | over | par excellence | peerless | pleasant | pleasing | politic | prime | professional | proficient | profitable | pure | quality | quick | quiet | quite some | rare | ready | regal | remarkable | resourceful | restrained | ripping | rivaling | royal | sainted | sanctified | select | shrined | simple | skillful | slap-up | slick | smashing | some | sound | sovereign | splendid | statesmanlike | sterling | stunning | stylish | subdued | sublime | super | superb | supereminent | superior | superlative | supreme | surpassing | swingeing | tactful | tasteful | terrific | the best | the compleat | the complete | throned | top | top-hole | top-notch | topping | transcendent | transcendental | transcending | unaffected | understated | unobtrusive | upper | useful | valid | very good | virtuoso | virtuous | well-chosen | well-done | without equal | workmanlike | worthy See Also | Excellent In Webster's Dictionary \Ex"cel*lent\, a. [F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis,
p. pr. of excellere. See {Excel}.]
1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the
sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good
sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen,
husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding,
principles, aims, action.
To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair.
--Milton.
2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality;
-- used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or
Ironical] ``An excellent hypocrite.'' --Hume.
Their sorrows are most excellent. --Beau. & Fl.
Syn: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite;
transcendent; admirable; worthy.
\Ex"cel*lent\, adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] ``This comes off well and excellent.'' --Shak. |
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