exemplary
/ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
adj
Providing an example or illustration.
Example Sentences
- "To answer these questions we must look more closely at the exemplary achievements of [David] Politzer, [David] Gross and [Frank] Wilcek. Here we will see the severe problems facing theorists in both the theoretical and phenomenological exploitation of QCD [quantum chromodynamics]."
- "Her behaviour was always exemplary."
- "The Archbishops and Bishops, next under the King, have the government of the Church and affairs ecclesiastical: be not, Sir, a mean to prefer any to those places for any by-respect; but only such as for their learning, gravity, and worth are deserving: and whose lives and doctrine are and ought to be exemplary."
- "For thus the Saviour of the world became humane, alluring, full of invitation and the ſweetneſſes of love, exemplary, humble and medicinal."
- "Lady Anne could not repress one involuntary exclamation of "what an inconvenient time Mr. Granard had chosen for his death!" but otherwise she behaved with exemplary propriety. She retired to her dressing-room, which was duly darkened, and there she sat, a white cambric handkerchief in one hand, and a bottle of salts in the other."
- "A maximum of 80 m.p.h. was quickly reached on the 1 in 264 down through Three Bridges and at this pace the riding was exemplary."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₁em-, exemplarie, exemplāris, exemplārium
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/
- British English: /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more exemplary (comparative)
most exemplary (superlative)
examplary (alternative, misspelling)
exemplaries (plural)