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excellent

adj
/ˈɛksələnt/UK/ˈɛkslənt//ˈɛksələnt/US

Etymology

From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent.

  1. derived from excellēns — “elevated, exalted”
  2. derived from excellent
  3. inherited from excellent

Definitions

  1. Having excelled, having surpassed.

  2. Of higher or the highest quality

    Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.

    • 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.

  3. Exceptionally good of its kind.

    • Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

      • Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite
      • Their sorrows are most excellent.

    2. Excellently.

      • Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

The neighborhood

Derived

eggcellent, excellence, excellently, excellentness, my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas, sexcellent, superexcellent, unexcellent

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at excellent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at excellent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at excellent

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA