excellent
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- very good; of the highest quality“made an excellent speech”“he was a splendid teacher”“a first-class mind”“famous for a mean backhand”Synonyms: first-classfantabuloussplendidrippingmeanOpposite inferiorSimilar superior
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Translations
Adjective of the highest quality
- Spanish
- excelente
- French
- excellent
- German
- ausgezeichnet
- Italian
- eccellente
- Portuguese
- excelente
- Turkish
- mükemmel
- Russian
- превосхо́дный prevosxódnyj
- Arabic
- مُمْتَاز mumtāz
- Chinese
- 出色 chūsè
- Japanese
- 素晴らしい subarashii
26 more languages
- Dutch
- uitstekend
- Polish
- doskonały
- Swedish
- utmärkt
- Greek
- υπέροχος ypérochos
- Korean
- 훌륭하다 hullyunghada
- Indonesian
- unggul
- Vietnamese
- xuất sắc
- Hungarian
- kitűnő
- Portuguese (PT)
- excelente
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 出色 chūsè
- Catalan
- excel·lent
- Czech
- vynikající
- Danish
- fremragende
- Esperanto
- bonega
- Estonian
- suurepärane
- Finnish
- erinomainen
- Hebrew
- מצוין metsuyan
- Icelandic
- frábær
- Latvian
- izcils
- Lithuanian
- puikus
- Norwegian
- utmerket
- Romanian
- excelent
- Scottish Gaelic
- math dha-rìribh
- Slovenian
- odličen
- Welsh
- rhagorol
- Yiddish
- אויסגעצייכנט oysgetseykhnt
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— John Milton
2. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; — used with words of a bad significance. Obs. or Ironical “An excellent hypocrite.” David Hume
Their sorrows are most excellent.— Francis, & Fletcher, John. Beaumont
Synonyms: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.
Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. obsolete “This comes off well and excellent.” William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54