exceptional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: more exceptional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exceptional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: exceptionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
pos: adj
examples: What an exceptional meal!
gloss: Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
pos: adj
examples: The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood.
gloss: Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
pos: adj
examples: The quality of the beer was exceptional.
gloss: Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
pos: adj
examples: an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
gloss: An exception, or something having an exceptional value
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Synonyms: egregious
Antonyms: ordinary
categorical
common
general
usual
mediocre
commonplace
Derived words: dual-exceptional
eggceptional
exceptional case-marking
exceptionalism
exceptionalist
exceptionality
exceptionally
exceptionalness
exceptional space
exceptional zero
nonexceptional
twice-exceptional
unexceptional
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتِثْنَائِيّ
roman: istiṯnāʔiyy
lang: Asturian
word: esceicional
lang: Azerbaijani
word: müstəsna
lang: Belarusian
word: вынятко́вы
roman: vynjatkóvy
lang: Bulgarian
word: изключи́телен
roman: izključítelen
lang: Catalan
word: excepcional
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 異常 /异常
roman: yìcháng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 特異 /特异
roman: tèyì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 特殊
roman: tèshū
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 特別 /特别
roman: tèbié
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 例外
roman: lìwài
lang: Czech
word: výjimečný
lang: Danish
word: eksceptionel
lang: Danish
word: ganske særlig
lang: Danish
word: ekstraordinær
lang: Dutch
word: buitengewoon
lang: Dutch
word: exceptioneel
lang: Dutch
word: uitzonderlijk
lang: Esperanto
word: escepta
lang: Finnish
word: poikkeuksellinen
lang: Finnish
word: harvinainen
lang: Finnish
word: tavaton
lang: French
word: exceptionnel
lang: German
word: außergewöhnlich
lang: Greek
word: εξαιρετικός
roman: exairetikós
lang: Hungarian
word: kivételes
lang: Hungarian
word: rendkívüli
lang: Irish
word: eisceachtúil
lang: Italian
word: eccezionale
lang: Japanese
word: 特殊な
roman: tokushu na
lang: Japanese
word: 特異な
roman: tokui na
lang: Japanese
word: 特別な
roman: tokubetsu na
lang: Japanese
word: 例外的な
roman: reigaiteki na
lang: Latin
word: eximius
lang: Macedonian
word: исклучителен
roman: isklučitelen
lang: Malayalam
word: അസാധാരണ
roman: asādhāraṇa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: eksepsjonell
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: eksepsjonell
lang: Polish
word: wyjątkowy
lang: Portuguese
word: excepcional
lang: Portuguese
word: excecional
lang: Russian
word: исключи́тельный
roman: isključítelʹnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: air leth
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: изузетан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: izuzetan
lang: Slovak
word: výnimočný
lang: Slovene
word: izjemen
lang: Spanish
word: excepcional
lang: Ukrainian
word: винятко́вий
roman: vynjatkóvyj