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: --
exceptional costs
A £2.5m exceptional charge from redundancies contributed to full-year losses.
in exceptional circumstances/cases This right to sell the shares will apply only in exceptional cases.
These are exceptional circumstances.
The industry is anxious to stress that this is an exceptional case.
These exceptional quality crystals introduce negligible aberration into the frequency doubled beam.
Taking regular individualised lessons in what might be regarded as the usual fashion for instrument tuition was exceptional for these learners.
These results speak to the outliers found in such research, exceptional learners whose abilities we scarcely understand.
His age and ability indicate that the experience of provincial leadership is, in the exceptional case, viable politically.
As we show, this exceptional development is determined by the ways in which mobile phones have been adapted to the local conditions of everyday life.
Analysts are bewildered by the exceptional endurance exhibited by most democratic administrations.
Masked exercises, which to us seem completely normal, were at that time exceptional.
Despite exceptional recent research progress in understanding elastic-fibre assembly and function, many questions remain to be addressed.
