excellent

A2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈɛkslənt/ UK /ˈɛksələnt/ See IPA manual

adj adv Freq #1362

Meanings

1

adj
Extremely good; of the highest quality.

The restaurant serves excellent food at a fair price.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · extremely good; of the... superb splendid outstanding

More ace admirable amazingawe-inspiringawesomebadassbang-upbased beatificbeneshipbitchingblissful

Opposites

bad inferior poor terrible

Word family

Derived forms eggcellentexcellence excellentlyexcellentnesssexcellentsuperexcellentunexcellent

Related forms best excel

Common collocations

excellent service Adjective + noun

Etymology

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

*kelH- Proto-Indo-European excellent Middle English excellēns Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities

# excellent

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** adj, adv
**IPA (US):** ˈɛkslənt
**IPA (UK):** ˈɛksələnt
**Frequency rank:** 1362

## Meanings
1. Extremely good; of the highest quality.

## Examples
- The restaurant serves excellent food at a fair price.

## Synonyms
- ace
- admirable
- amazing
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- badass
- bang-up
- based
- beatific
- beneship
- bitching
- blissful

## Antonyms
- bad
- inferior
- poor
- terrible

## Derived Forms
- eggcellent
- excellence
- excellently
- excellentness
- sexcellent
- superexcellent
- unexcellent

## Related Forms
- best
- excel

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *kelH-
- Root: excellent
- Root: excellēns

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

## AI Etymology
Excellent comes from Middle English excellent, from Old French excellent, from Latin excellēns (“elevated, exalted”), present participle of excellō (“elevate, exult”), equivalent to excel + -ent. In current use, the main sense is “Extremely good; of the highest quality”. Its deeper ancestry includes Proto-Indo-European *kelH-.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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