Usually means: Outstandingly superior, surpassing ordinary standards.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. exceptional: Merriam-Webster
  2. exceptional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exceptional: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exceptional: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exceptional: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exceptional, exceptional: Wordnik
  7. exceptional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exceptional: Wiktionary
  9. exceptional: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exceptional: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exceptional: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exceptional, exceptional: Dictionary.com
  13. exceptional: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Exceptional: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. exceptional: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. exceptional: Rhymezone
  17. exceptional: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. exceptional: FreeDictionary.org
  19. exceptional: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. exceptional: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. exceptional: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exceptional: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exceptional: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exceptional: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See exceptionality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
adjective:  Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
adjective:  (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
noun:  An exception, or something having an exceptional value

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