exceptional
/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/ adjective B2- 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
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It was perfectly clear that the Signor Sinbad, Franz’s host, had the honor of being on excellent terms with the smugglers and bandits along the whole coast of the Mediterranean, and so enjoyed exceptional privileges.
His tall, bony figure gave promise of exceptional physical strength, while his great cranium and deep-set, lustrous eyes spoke no less clearly of the keen intelligence which twinkled out from behind his bushy eyebrows.
You see, at the commencement of an investigation it is something to know that your client is in close contact with some one who, for good or evil, has an exceptional nature.
While gratuities were once reserved exclusively for exceptional table service, they have recently permeated almost every commercial transaction.
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