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Exceptional

//ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.

    "What an exceptional meal!"

  2. 2
    Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.; Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability.

    "The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood."

  3. 3
    Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.

    "The quality of the beer was exceptional."

  4. 4
    Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.

    "an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor"

Adjective
  1. 1
    surpassing what is common or usual or expected wordnet
  2. 2
    deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence wordnet
  3. 3
    far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An exception, or something having an exceptional value

    "Above and beyond all these exceptionals, by reason of divergencies from the norms of mental and of physical status, there are quite a number of moral defectives."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From exception + -al.

Etymology 2

From exception + -al.

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