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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'

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... old Simon said, his wife knew no rival in the art of preparing hotchpotch. It was the same with the "cockyleeky," a cock stewed with leeks, which merited high praise. The whole was washed down with excellent ale, obtained from the best ...

— The Underground City • Jules Verne

... were approaching a climax. Lord Bromley was making an excellent lover, as was proved by the fact that the audience was taking him seriously instead of laughing through ...

— When Patty Went to College • Jean Webster

... offensive was, I am sure, as Hunnish as its author could possibly have desired. Miss ELLIS JEFFREYS appeared in the first Act as a very plausible imitation of a prominent tradesman's wife in an eighth-rate provincial town, with some quite excellent moments. But she was evidently labouring under severe strain, and I amused myself by speculating how long she would keep out of a really well-cut skirt and a sophisticated air of Mayfair. Just an Act. And surely she is mistaken in thinking that an effect of extreme ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 12, 1917 • Various

... been given had there been the least danger, and that all he had to apprehend was a little fatigue; and, as Evan proposed he should pass a day at his Chieftain's house in returning, where he would be sure of good accommodation and an excellent welcome, there seemed nothing very formidable in the task he undertook. Rose, indeed, turned pale when she heard of it; but her father, who loved the spirited curiosity of his young friend, did not attempt to damp it by an alarm of danger which really did not exist, and a knapsack, with a ...

— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... are excellent actors, I assure you. If you had come in ten minutes ago, you would have witnessed a ...

— Vera - or, The Nihilists • Oscar Wilde

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