unexceptional
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- 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 English unexceptional From un- + exceptional.
- derived from -ālisbor
- derived from -ālis Old French -elbor
- derived from -albor
- derived from *-ālis Latin -ālisbor✻
- derived from excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor
Definitions
Not exceptional.
- Uncle Shemp was alarmingly unexceptional. He had no detectable lifestyle, and his only accomplishment was the fact that he was a lifelong member of the general public.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at unexceptional. 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 unexceptional. 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 unexceptional
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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