excellentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛksələnt/, /ˈɛksɪlənt/
• (in rapid speech) IPA: /ˈɛkslənt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɛksələnt/

形容詞

excellent (comparative more excellent, superlative 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; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, 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.

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

   • 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.

4. Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
   • 1754–1762, David Hume, “(please specify the page)”, in [The History of England ], volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]:

     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, Act II, scene iii:

     Their sorrows are most excellent.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:excellent

反意語

• poor
• terrible

派生語

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: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• excellent in Britannica Dictionary
• excellent in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• excellent in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• excellent in WordReference English Collocations