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excellent

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Adjective
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ex=cel=lent
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7 in 7 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses) (in NT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

excellenta. [F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See Excel.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "To love . . .
    What I see excellent in good or fair.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.  Hume.  [1913 Webster]
    "Their sorrows are most excellent."
Syn. -- Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.
excellentadv. 
     Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

excellent, adj. extremely good; pre-eminent.

Derivative
excellently adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF (as EXCEL)

THESAURUS

excellent

Al, Attic, Daedalian, Grade A, a cut above, above, adept, admirable, adroit, advantageous, aesthetic, aggrandized, ahead, apotheosized, apt, artistic, ascendant, auspicious, authoritative, awesome, bang-up, banner, beatified, beneficial, benevolent, better, big, blue-ribbon, bon, bonny, bonzer, boss, bravura, braw, brilliant, bueno, bully, bunkum, canonized, capital, capping, champion, chaste, choice, chosen, classic, classical, clean, clever, cogent, commendable, cool, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, dandy, deft, deified, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, distinguished, eclipsing, elegant, elevated, eminent, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, estimable, exalted, exceeding, excelling, exceptional, expedient, expert, extraordinary, fair, famous, fancy, fantastic, favorable, fine, finer, first-class, first-rate, first-string, glorified, good, goodish, goodly, graceful, grand, great, greater, handy, healthy, hear, held in awe, helpful, high, high and mighty, higher, immortal, immortalized, in ascendancy, in good taste, in the ascendant, ingenious, kind, laudable, lofty, magic, magisterial, magnified, major, marked, masterful, masterly, matchless, mighty, neat, nice, no mean, noble, nonpareil, notable, noteworthy, number one, of choice, of quality, one up on, ordinary, outstanding, over, par excellence, peerless, pleasant, pleasing, politic, prime, professional, proficient, profitable, pure, quality, quick, quiet, quite some, rare, ready, regal, remarkable, resourceful, restrained, ripping, rivaling, royal, sainted, sanctified, select, shrined, simple, skillful, slap-up, slick, smashing, some, sound, sovereign, splendid, statesmanlike, sterling, stunning, stylish, subdued, sublime, super, superb, supereminent, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, swingeing, tactful, tasteful, terrific, the best, the compleat, the complete, throned, top, top-hole, top-notch, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, unaffected, understated, unobtrusive, upper, useful, valid, very good, virtuoso, virtuous, well-chosen, well-done, without equal, workmanlike, worthy

ROGET THESAURUS

excellent

Goodness

N goodness, excellence, merit, virtue, value, worth, price, super-excellence, supereminence, superiority, perfection, coup de maitre, masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth, champion, prodigy, tidbit, gem, gem of the first water, bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure, good thing, rara avis, one in a thousand, beneficence, good man, harmless, hurtless, unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive, beneficial, valuable, of value, serviceable, advantageous, edifying, profitable, salutary, favorable, propitious fair, good, good as gold, excellent, better, superior, above par, nice, fine, genuine, best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless, unparagoned, unparalleled, superlatively, good, bully, crackajack, giltedged, superfine, superexcellent, of the first water, first-rate, first-class, high- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal, standard, inimitable, admirable, estimable, praiseworthy, pleasing, couleur de rose, precious, of great price, costly, worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye, priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye, tolerable, up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, satisfactory, tidy, in good condition, in fair condition, fresh, sound, beneficially, well, Jewels five words long, long may such goodness live!, the luxury of doing good.

Virtue

N virtue, virtuousness, morality, moral rectitude, integrity, nobleness, morals, ethics, cardinal virtues, merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit, self-control, self-denial, well-doing, good actions, good behavior, discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty, well-spent life, innocence, virtuous, good, innocent, meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct, dutiful, duteous, moral, right, righteous, right- minded, well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy, above all praise, beyond all praise, excellent, admirable, sterling, pure, noble, whole-souled, exemplary, matchless, peerless, saintly, saint-like, heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike, virtuously, adj, e merito, esse quam videri bonus malebat, Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht, virtue the greatest of all monarchies, virtus laudatur et alget, virtus vincit invidiam.


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