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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Excellent \Ex"cel*lent\, adverb Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] ''This comes off well and excellent.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Excellent \Ex"cel*lent\, adjective [F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See {Excel}.]
1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.
To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. --Milton.
2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or Ironical] ''An excellent hypocrite.'' --Hume.
Their sorrows are most excellent. --Beau. & Fl.
Syn: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
excellent
adjective: of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind" [syn: {first-class}, {fantabulous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
216 Moby Thesaurus words for "excellent": Al, Attic, Daedalian, Grade A, a cut above, above, adept, admirable, adroit, advantageous, aesthetic, aggrandized, ahead, apotheosized, apt, artistic, ascendant, auspicious, authoritative, awesome, bang-up, banner, beatified, beneficial, benevolent, better, big, blue-ribbon, bon, bonny, bonzer, boss, bravura, braw, brilliant, bueno, bully, bunkum, canonized, capital, capping, champion, chaste, choice, chosen, classic, classical, clean, clever, cogent, commendable, cool, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, dandy, deft, deified, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, distinguished, eclipsing, elegant, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, estimable, exalted, exceeding, excelling, exceptional, expedient, expert, extraordinary, fair, famous, fancy, fantastic, favorable, fine, finer, first-class, first-rate, first-string, glorified, good, goodish, goodly, graceful, grand, great, greater, handy, healthy, hear, held in awe, helpful, high, high and mighty, higher, immortal, immortalized, in ascendancy, in good taste, in the ascendant, ingenious, kind, laudable, lofty, magic, magisterial, magnified, major, marked, masterful, masterly, matchless, mighty, neat, nice, no mean, noble, nonpareil, notable, noteworthy, number one, of choice, of quality, one up on, ordinary, outstanding, over, par excellence, peerless, pleasant, pleasing, politic, prime, professional, proficient, profitable, pure, quality, quick, quiet, quite some, rare, ready, regal, remarkable, resourceful, restrained, ripping, rivaling, royal, sainted, sanctified, select, shrined, simple, skillful, slap-up, slick, smashing, some, sound, sovereign, splendid, statesmanlike, sterling, stunning, stylish, subdued, sublime, super, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, swingeing, tactful, tasteful, terrific, the best, the compleat, the complete, throned, top, top-hole, top-notch, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, unaffected, understated, unobtrusive, upper, useful, valid, very good, virtuoso, virtuous, well-chosen, well-done, without equal, workmanlike, worthy
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