exceptional
/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
noun
An exception, or something having an exceptional value
Example Sentences
- "What an exceptional meal!"
- "The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood."
- "The quality of the beer was exceptional."
- "an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor"
- "Above and beyond all these exceptionals, by reason of divergencies from the norms of mental and of physical status, there are quite a number of moral defectives."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Archaic Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception English -al English exceptional From exception + -al.