EXCELLENTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksələnt/, /ˈɛksɪlənt/
• (in rapid speech) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkslənt/

形容詞

excellent (comparative excellenter または more excellent, superlative excellentest または most excellent)

1. Having excelled, having surpassed.
2. Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:

     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.

3. Exceptionally good of its kind.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

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

4. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
   • 1754–1762, David Hume, The History of England

     Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite

   • 1616–1618, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger; Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act II, scene iii:

     Their sorrows are most excellent.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:excellent

反意語

• poor
• terrible

派生語

• excellence
• excellently
• excellentness

関連する語

• excel

副詞

excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative most excellent)

1. (obsolete) Excellently.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     , New York Review Books 2001, p.287:

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

Further reading

• excellent at OneLook Dictionary Search
• excellent in Britannica Dictionary
• excellent in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• excellent in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• excellent in WordReference English Collocations

Latin

動詞

excellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of excellō