0 much greater than usual, especially in skill, intelligence, quality, etc.:
1 not like most others of the same type; unusual:
This is an exceptional contract, guaranteeing no layoffs.
2 unusual; not what happens regularly or is expected:
The industry is anxious to stress that this is an exceptional case.
These are exceptional circumstances.
in exceptional circumstances/cases This right to sell the shares will apply only in exceptional cases.
A £2.5m exceptional charge from redundancies contributed to full-year losses.
exceptional costs
Judges only grant marriage annulments in exceptional circumstances.
a woman of exceptional perspicacity
At £30 a night, this hotel represents exceptional value for money.
The peninsula is a lightly populated area of natural beauty with exceptional wildlife.
an outstanding garden of exceptional beauty
Eight building phases on a single farmyard are exceptional, but three or four overlapping ground plans are quite common.
Purely indefinite readings appear to be more exceptional, yet in some contexts they provide a plausible interpretation of a given gerund construction.
Both are lost to the ideological ' construction' of selfhood, exceptional or otherwise.
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(尤指在技能、才智、品質等方面)卓越的,傑出的,不同凡響的…
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