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exceptional
- /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- [ɪ-]
- [ɛ-]
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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
substratebor.?
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Archaic 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
English -al
English exceptional
From exception + -al.
adjective more exceptional · most exceptional
- Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare. What an exceptional meal!
- Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability. The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood.
- Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity. The quality of the beer was exceptional.
- Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence. an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
Similar: egregious
noun exceptionals
- An exception, or something having an exceptional value 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.
