exceptional
adjective
- being intellectually gifted.
- being physically or especially mentally disabled to an extent that special schooling is required.
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unusual, rare, remarkable, singular, phenomenal, noteworthy, notable, unheard-of, uncommon, extraordinary, strange, unique, odd, unprecedented, special, superior, good, outstanding, marvelous, first-rateExamples from the Web for exceptional
Contemporary Examples of exceptional
For them, at least, the United States remains the exceptional nation, the indispensable one you turn to in time of trouble.
Jackson was an exceptional math and science student; the dreaded Bartlett was one of his favorite professors.
As the doors opened, there were black people who were exceptional opening those doors.
I do think the Holocaust is exceptional in all kinds of ways.
Sorokko now has “a couple of hundred [pieces] of exceptional quality,” she says.
Historical Examples of exceptional
Every year he adds some fresh decoration, some new and exceptional scene.
De Libris: Prose and VerseAustin Dobson
Of course there's a horde of applicants, but you're exceptional; you know that.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
His next move proved that his cunning was of an exceptional order.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
But then he is an exceptional and note-worthy man--one among ten thousand.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
What had any of these people done that was noble, exceptional, distinguished?
The Greater InclinationEdith Wharton