extraordinary
/ɪkˈstɹɔɹdɪnɛɹi/ adjective B1- Out of the ordinary; exceptional; unusual. · Except in extraordinary circumstances, […]
- Remarkably good. · an extraordinary poet
- Special or supernumerary. · the physician extraordinary in a royal household· an extraordinary professor in a German university
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That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.
The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.
“We have to remember, Watson, that whatever occurred is certainly something very extraordinary.
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