excellentadjective
uk/ˈek.səl.ənt/us/ˈek.səl.ənt/A2 extremely good:
The food was excellent.
Her car is in excellent condition.
The fall in interest rates is excellent news for borrowers.
"Our sales are up for the third year in a row." "Excellent." (= I'm extremely pleased.)
More examples
- "Did you have any difficulty finding the theatre?" "No, your directions were excellent."
- The gallery has an excellent collection of modern art.
- The job offers excellent promotion prospects.
- The restaurant is well known for its friendly atmosphere and excellent service.
- Cycling is an excellent way to keep fit.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- magnificent
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
- textbook
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excellently
adverb uk/ˈek.səl.ənt.li/us/ˈek.səl.ənt.li/
Examples
- The children behaved excellently and should be very proud of themselves.
- I slept excellently after our walk yesterday.
- For such an inexperienced team, they played excellently.
- The group perform excellently together, giving a fine interpretation of the music.
- We looked at some excellently preserved fossils from the Jurassic period.