Excellent

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excellent \Ex"cel*lent\, a. [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.
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              To love . . .
              What I see excellent in good or fair. --Milton.
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     2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality;
        -- used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or
        Ironical] "An excellent hypocrite." --Hume.
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              Their sorrows are most excellent.     --Beau. & Fl.
  
     Syn: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite;
          transcendent; admirable; worthy.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excellent \Ex"cel*lent\, adv.
     Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] "This comes off
     well and excellent." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excellent
       adj : 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