EXCELLENT meaning: Superior quality, exceeding normal standards

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word excellent:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

excellent: Merriam-Webster
excellent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
excellent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
excellent: Collins English Dictionary
excellent: Vocabulary.com
Excellent, excellent: Wordnik
excellent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
excellent: Wiktionary
excellent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
excellent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
excellent: Infoplease Dictionary
Excellent, excellent: Dictionary.com
excellent: Online Etymology Dictionary
excellent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Excellent (album), Excellent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Excellent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
excellent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
excellent: Rhymezone
excellent, excellent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
excellent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
excellent: FreeDictionary.org
excellent: Mnemonic Dictionary
excellent: TheFreeDictionary.com
excellent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
excellent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

excellent: Legal dictionary
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)

excellent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Having excelled, having surpassed.
▸ adjective:  Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
▸ adjective:  Exceptionally good of its kind.
▸ adjective:  Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Excellently.

Opposite:

poor, terrible, awful, inferior, substandard

Types:

great, wonderful, fantastic, marvelous, superb, terrific, splendid, magnificent, more...

Phrases:

most excellent, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, The Right Excellent, more...

Adjectives:

most, good, poor, average, local, very, percent, connective, wrong, chief, hamlet

Colors:

gold, platinum, emerald, sapphire, ruby, more...

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