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Excellent

//ˈɛksələnt// adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having excelled, having surpassed.
  2. 2
    Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.

    "A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire."

  3. 3
    Exceptionally good of its kind.

    "Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam."

  4. 4
    Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

    "Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite"

Adjective
  1. 1
    very good; of the highest quality wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Excellently. obsolete

    "Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […]."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent.

Etymology 2

From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent.

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