Sekirov Dictionary

exceptional

/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 3

adjective4

•
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- What an exceptional meal!
•
Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- The quality of the beer was exceptional.
•
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.
Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.

noun1

•
An exception, or something having an exceptional value
- 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. — 1909

forms

exceptionals · more exceptional · most exceptional

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