excellent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.

   A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

2. 2
   adj

   Exceptionally good of its kind.

   Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.

3. 3
   adj

   Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

   Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite

4. 4
   adv

   Excellently.

   Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

5. 5
   adj

   very good

6. 6
   adj

   Having excelled, having surpassed.

Etymology

From Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent.