Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exceeding

/ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables: ex-ceed-ing
IPA: /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of exceed

adj

Archaic

adj

exceptional, extraordinary

Archaic

adj

Archaic

adv

Archaic

noun

The situation of being in excess.

Example Sentences

"Those which write the life of Augustus Cæsar, note this in his military discipline, that he was exceeding liberall and lavish in his gifts to such as were of any desert[…]."
"1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus."
"[…] a mighty huge hole or gulf all round, in manner of a hollow globe cut through the midst, exceeding deep and horrible to see to, full of much darkness, […]"
"I have to say it appears to me in the first place, that the exceedings of expenditure beyond estimate appearing upon that account, do not give to the Grand Canal company the slightest legal right to any public money[…]"

Etymology

From exceed + -ing.

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more exceeding (comparative) most exceeding (superlative) exceedings (plural)

Derived Forms

exceedingness

Synonyms

exceptional olympian prodigious surpassing

Rhymes With

reading leading feeding bleeding breeding needing misleading preceding speeding proceeding succeeding pleading

Questions

How do you pronounce exceeding?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪkˈsiːdɪŋ/.
What does exceeding mean?: present participle and gerund of exceed
Where does exceeding come from?: From exceed + -ing.

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