exceptional
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English exceptional From exception + -al.
- derived from -ālisbor
- derived from -ālis Old French -elbor
- derived from -albor
- derived from *-ālis Latin -ālisbor✻
- derived from excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor
Definitions
Forming an exception
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- What an exceptional meal!
Better than the average
Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- The quality of the beer was exceptional.
Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
- an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
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An exception, or something having an exceptional value
- 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.
The neighborhood
- synonymegregious
- antonymordinaryantonym(s) of “forming an exception”
- antonymcategoricalantonym(s) of “forming an exception”
- antonymcommonantonym(s) of “forming an exception”
- antonymgeneralantonym(s) of “forming an exception”
- antonymusualantonym(s) of “forming an exception”
- antonymmediocreantonym(s) of “superior due to exception or rarity”
- antonymcommonplaceantonym(s) of “superior due to exception or rarity”
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at exceptional. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at exceptional. 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 exceptional
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