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Outstanding

adjective

Distinguished from others in excellence. "An outstanding war record"

Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention. Synonyms: prominent, salient, spectacular, striking. "A new theory is the most prominent feature of the book" , "Salient traits" , "A spectacular rise in prices" , "A striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center" , "A striking resemblance between parent and child"

Owed as a debt. Synonyms: owing, undischarged. "The amount still owed" , "Undischarged debts"

Of major significance or importance. Synonym: great. "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey"

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"Outstanding" Quotes from Famous Books

... up for consideration the fact that, although he is the most outstanding figure in literature among the Aframericans of the United States, he does not stand alone among the Aframericans of the whole Western world. There are Placido and Manzano in Cuba; Vieux and Durand in Haiti, Machado de Assis in Brazil; Leon Laviaux in Martinique, and others ...

— The Book of American Negro Poetry • Edited by James Weldon Johnson

... the war had broken out, it was Bob who had enlisted in the air service and come back from abroad with the Croix de Guerre and a distinguished service medal with several citations for bravery. And now, as a senior at Bartlett College, it was Bob who was heralded as the outstanding member of the football team. Yes—there was no question about ...

— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman

... advertisements occupying the whole of the fourth page. It was breathing its last. The editor was a clay-colored gentleman with a goatee, whose one surreptitious eye betokened both indolence of disposition and a certain furtive shrewdness. He collected all the outstanding subscriptions he could, on the morning of the issue just mentioned, and, thoughtfully neglecting several items on the other side of the ledger, ...

— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

... not perfect. He will find that he has not given exactly the proper curves to secure achromatism. He must then change the figure of one or both the glasses by polishing it upon a tool of slightly different curvature. He may also find that there is some spherical aberration outstanding. He must then alter his curve so as to correct this. The correction of these little imperfections in the figures of the lenses so as to secure perfect vision through them is the most difficult branch of the art of the optician, and upon his skill in practising it ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

... is a room of good landscapes, with a few outstanding canvases like Will S. Robinson's "Group of White ...

— An Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition • Shelden Cheney

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