Definition: 1. Unusually good. 2. Very unusual. 3. Far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree. 4. Surpassing what is common or usual or expected.
Use 'exceptional' in a sentence:
1. Good guides can transform your experience from ordinary to exceptional.
2. But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.
3. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: ‘ The candidate was productive, or intelligent, or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise,' but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind."
4. And lastly, three Michelin stars meant "exceptional cuisine5, worth a special journey."
5. The island boasts two exceptional beaches: Tung Wan, a popular bathing area with idyllic beach houses and Kwan-yin Wan, known as a windsurfing haven.
6. He is an exceptional footballer — an artist.
7. Sedimentation and denudation play a role in exceptional cases.
8. Bailyn might respond that New England was exceptional.
9. Exceptional efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award.
10. You don't have to be someone's boss to tell them they did an exceptional job on a particular project.
11. In many countries, part-time studying is not exceptional: on average across OECD countries, part-time students in 2016 represented 20 percent of enrolment in tertiary education.
12. Today, people still look to stars or genes, astrology or genetics, in the hope of finding the source of exceptional abilities or personal characteristics.
13. Here, the colonnaded streets, arches and theaters are in exceptional condition.
14. Exceptional patients have the ability to throw statistics aside to say, 'I can be a survivor'.
15. I have never seen the video cable go bad, but I think that in exceptional circumstances, it is possible.
16. He is a writer of exceptional literary talent.
17. Exceptional students are given free tuition.
18. The stories of his unconventional ideas and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so amazing to me and had such a big impact on how I saw life from then on.
19. The boy has an exceptional talent for mathematics.
20. This kind of weather is exceptional for june.
21. The authors spent five years studying the behaviour of their 344 "exceptional companies", only to come up at first with nothing.
22. Exceptional companies approach these tradeoffs with two simple rules in mind, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously.
23. The young surgeon showed exceptional competence.
24. His translation is exceptional in its poetic quality.
25. I was born rich, certainly, but I remain rich by virtue1 of exceptional conduct.
26. Our circumstances have been rather exceptional.
27. Dickens had so much energy and such an exceptional imagination.
28. I recommend him without reservation, as I believe you will appreciate his exceptional ability in his studies.
29. School governors have the discretion to allow parents to withdraw pupils in exceptional circumstances.
30. He showed exceptional musical ability.
31. Purging databases, configuring, and making other exceptional requests might fall into this category.
32. What he has to say is expressed in prose of exceptional lucidity and grace.
33. Marvin's father was exceptional for the inflexibility of his rules.
34. There are, frankly, an astonishing number of exceptional colleges in America, and for any given student, there are a number of schools that are a great fit.
35. As it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.
36. Their technical ability is exceptional.
37. She was possessed of exceptional powers of concentration.
38. The flesh of this kind of fish has exceptional delicacy.
39. Its flesh has exceptional delicacies.
40. We will wander in traditional small towns and end our tour with an exceptional museum in Shanghai.
41. This deadline will be extended only in exceptional circumstances.
42. A review panel concluded that there were no exceptional circumstances that would warrant a lesser penalty for him.
43. Success authors usually serve up vivid stories about how exceptional businesspeople stamped their personalities on a company or rescued it from a life-threatening crisis.
44. However, there is one exceptional dump, which does represent a very large part of the site's total history of consumption and for which an estimate of quantity has been produced.
45. At the age of five he showed exceptional talent as a musician.
46. The quality of the recording is quite exceptional.
47. She's a woman of exceptional intelligence.
48. For such people and many more perhaps not so exceptional, the proper formulation is, "Succeed at all costs but avoid appearing ambitious."
49. Capital punishment is allowable only under exceptional circumstances.
