excellent

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//ˈɛksələnt//(Received Pronunciation)

Definitions & Usage

adjective
#1

Having excelled, having surpassed.

adjective
#2

Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.

adjective
#3

Exceptionally good of its kind.

Example: Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.
adjective
#4

Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

adverb
#5

(obsolete) Excellently.

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

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

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.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite

1754–1762, David Hume, “(please specify the page)”, in [The History of England ], volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]:

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