Exemplary

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ex=em=pla=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

Exemplary, a. [L. exemplaris, fr. exemplar: cf. F. exemplaire. See Exemplar.].

•  Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.  [1913 Webster]

  "[Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary."  [1913 Webster]
•  Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.  [1913 Webster]
•  Illustrating as the proof of a thing.  Fuller.  [1913 Webster]

Exemplary damages. (Law) See under Damage.

Exemplary, n. 

 An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.  Donne.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Exemplary, adj.
1 fit to be imitated; outstandingly good.
2 a serving as a warning. b Law (of damages) exceeding the amount needed for simple compensation.
3 illustrative, representative.

Derivative

exemplarily adv. exemplariness n.

Etymology

LL exemplaris (as EXAMPLE)

THESAURUS

Exemplary

admirable, admonishing, admonitory, archetypal, archetypical, beyond all praise, blameless, cautionary, cautioning, characteristic, classic, classical, commendable, consummate, creditable, deserving, deterrent, developed, distinctive, distinguishing, estimable, excellent, expert, finished, fully developed, guiltless, ideal, illustrative, inculpable, innocent, irreprehensible, laudable, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, meritorious, model, monitorial, monitory, natural, naturalistic, normal, noteworthy, notificational, notifying, outstanding, paradigmatic, perfected, polished, praiseworthy, precedential, proficient, prototypal, pure, quintessential, realistic, refined, regular, representative, righteous, ripe, ripened, sample, standard, superior, t, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unblamable, unexceptionable, usual, virtuous, warning, well-deserving, worthy

ROGET THESAURUS

Exemplary

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.