excellent

excellent
adj.
VERBS
▪ appear, be, look, prove, remain, seem, sound
▪ consider sth
▪

The school is considered excellent.

ADVERB
▪ most, really, truly
▪ absolutely, quite
▪ rather
▪ generally
▪

The meals are generally excellent.

▪ consistently, uniformly
▪

The performances and recordings are uniformly excellent.

▪ apparently
▪ potentially
▪ otherwise
▪

In an otherwise excellent issue, I found Creed's article very unconvincing.

PREPOSITION
▪ at
▪

Clancey was excellent at keeping the kids under control.

▪ for
▪

These potatoes are excellent for baking.

Excellent is used with these nouns: ↑accommodation, ↑acting, ↑advice, ↑amenity, ↑article, ↑balance, ↑bargain, ↑base, ↑book, ↑buffet, ↑camouflage, ↑candidate, ↑cast, ↑champagne, ↑chance, ↑character, ↑chef, ↑choice, ↑coffee, ↑collection, ↑command, ↑condition, ↑conductor, ↑cook, ↑coordination, ↑credentials, ↑crop, ↑cuisine, ↑dancer, ↑description, ↑design, ↑dinner, ↑display, ↑doctor, ↑education, ↑example, ↑excuse, ↑eyesight, ↑facility, ↑fit, ↑food, ↑foundation, ↑fun, ↑goal, ↑goalkeeper, ↑GP, ↑grade, ↑guide, ↑health, ↑hearing, ↑hotel, ↑idea, ↑illustration, ↑impression, ↑ingredient, ↑instinct, ↑introduction, ↑investment, ↑job, ↑lawyer, ↑library, ↑match, ↑meal, ↑memory, ↑model, ↑mother, ↑museum, ↑musician, ↑news, ↑opportunity, ↑package, ↑performance, ↑photograph, ↑piece, ↑play, ↑player, ↑point, ↑presentation, ↑progress, ↑prospect, ↑pub, ↑quality, ↑range, ↑rate, ↑record, ↑recording, ↑recovery, ↑reference, ↑report, ↑reproduction, ↑reputation, ↑resource, ↑restaurant, ↑result, ↑return, ↑review, ↑run, ↑save, ↑score, ↑selection, ↑service, ↑shape, ↑shop, ↑shot, ↑source, ↑speech, ↑start, ↑starting point, ↑subject, ↑suggestion, ↑summary, ↑taste, ↑teacher, ↑training, ↑try, ↑tutorial, ↑value, ↑vehicle, ↑visibility, ↑vision, ↑weather, ↑win, ↑wine, ↑work

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  • excellent — excellent, ente [ ɛkselɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] adj. • XIIe; lat. excellens, p. prés. de excellere → exceller ♦ Qui, dans son genre, atteint un degré éminent de perfection; très bon. ⇒ admirable, merveilleux, parfait, supérieur. A ♦ 1 ♦ (Choses) Un lit… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • excellent — excellent, ente (è ksè lan, lan t ) adj. 1°   Qui est à un degré éminent, qui l emporte. •   Il fut appelé à cette excellente fonction de ministre du Dieu vivant pour la défense de l Église et pour le salut des peuples, BOURDAL. Panég. de S.… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • excellent — Excellent, [excell]ente. adj. v. Qui excelle. Excellent vin. chere excellente. goust excellent. fruits, melons excellents. ces chevaux là sont excellents. Musique excellente. excellente piece de theatre. excellent Musicien. excellent Poëte.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • excellent — Excellent, Exquisitus, Praestabilis, Singularis, Splendidus, Clarus, Praeclarus, Excellens. Excellent et comme separé du troupeau, Egregius, Eximius. Excellent en perfection, Absolutus. Excellent en sagesse, Antecellens sapientia. Le plus… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Excellent — Ex cel*lent, a. [F. excellent, L. excellens, entis, p. pr. of excellere. See {Excel}.] 1. 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Excellent — may refer to:*Excellence *Excellent ring, in mathematics *Excellent scheme, in mathematicsee also*Excellence (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

  • excellent — mid 14c., from O.Fr. excellent outstanding, excellent, from L. excellentem (nom. excellens), prp. of excellere (see EXCEL (Cf. excel)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • excellent — can be qualified by quite or most, which are adverbs with absolute meaning, but not by very or more, which are grading adverbs: • The quite excellent British Museum Press, which is managing to produce some twenty scholarly titles this season Art… …   Modern English usage

  • Excellent — Ex cel*lent, adv. Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] This comes off well and excellent. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Excellent — (v. lat.), vortrefflich, herrlich …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Excellent — Excellent, lat. deutsch, vortrefflich; herrlich; excelliren, sich auszeichnen …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

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