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adjective

Excellent adj.

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."

Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; used with words of a bad significance. (Obs. or Ironical) "An excellent hypocrite." "Their sorrows are most excellent."

Synonyms: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.

adverb

Excellent adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. (Obs.) "This comes off well and excellent."

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Etymology of 'Excellent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Excellent" Quotes from Famous Books

... to dine in the gallery at Romano's on Sunday, because the dinner was excellent and looked as though it cost a good deal more than it did. Philip and Mildred arrived first and had to wait some time ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... as if into a hospital or into a prison, not in order to be sent to bed, not to be buried alive, but (if I may change my metaphor) brought together as if into some moral factory, for the melting, refining, and moulding, by an incessant, noisy process, of the raw material of human nature, so excellent, so dangerous, ...

— Apologia Pro Vita Sua • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning. This prince has several machines fixed on wheels, for the carriage ...

— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

... and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent. Yes, she said, this was Mr. Hyde's, but he was not at home; he had been in that night very late, but had gone away again in less than an hour; there was nothing strange in that; his habits were very irregular, and he was often ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... ladies to leave their scissors about;—the frail thread of a worthless life is soon snipped. I wish to God my fate had been true to its first destination, and made a parson of me;—I should have made an excellent country Joll. I think I can, with confidence, pronounce the character that would have been given of me:—He was an indolent good-humored man, civil at all times, and hospitable at others, namely, when he was able to be so, which, truth to say, ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore

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