excellent
Definitions & Usage
Having excelled, having surpassed.
Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
Exceptionally good of its kind.
Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
(obsolete) Excellently.
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, […]: