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Definition of Excellent
Excellent

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.

Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.

Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.

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Excellent Quotations

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

There is also something excellent in every audience, the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle

Excellent Translations

excellent in Italian is esimio, grandioso, eccellentissimo
excellent in Latin is precipuus, palmarium, praestans prestans, eximius
excellent in Norwegian is fortreffelig, utmerket
excellent in Spanish is preeminente, insigne, sublime


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