exceptional

From exception +‎ -al.

exceptional (comparative more exceptional, superlative most exceptional)

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
What an exceptional meal!
1. (education, of a student) Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability.
  The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood.
Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
The quality of the beer was exceptional.
(geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor

(antonym(s) of “forming an exception”): ordinary, categorical, common, general, usual
(antonym(s) of “superior due to exception or rarity”): ordinary, mediocre, commonplace

forming an exception

Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَائِيّ (istiṯnāʔiyy)
Asturian: esceicional
Azerbaijani: müstəsna
Belarusian: вынятко́вы (vynjatkóvy)
Bulgarian: изключи́телен (bg) (izključítelen)
Catalan: excepcional (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 異常 / 异常 (zh) (yìcháng), 特異 / 特异 (zh) (tèyì), 特殊 (zh) (tèshū), 特別 / 特别 (zh) (tèbié), 例外 (zh) (lìwài)
Czech: výjimečný (cs) m
Danish: eksceptionel, ganske særlig, ekstraordinær
Dutch: buitengewoon (nl), exceptioneel (nl), uitzonderlijk (nl)
Esperanto: escepta
Finnish: poikkeuksellinen (fi), harvinainen (fi), tavaton (fi)
French: exceptionnel (fr)
German: außergewöhnlich (de)
Greek: εξαιρετικός (el) m (exairetikós)
Hungarian: kivételes (hu), rendkívüli (hu)
Irish: eisceachtúil
Italian: eccezionale (it)
Japanese: 特殊な (ja) (tokushu na), 特異な (ja) (tokui na), 特別な (ja) (tokubetsu na), 例外的な (ja) (reigaiteki na)
Latin: eximius
Macedonian: исклучителен (isklučitelen)
Malayalam: അസാധാരണ (ml) (asādhāraṇa)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eksepsjonell

Nynorsk: eksepsjonell
Polish: wyjątkowy (pl) m
Portuguese: excepcional (pt), excecional (Portugal)
Russian: исключи́тельный (ru) (isključítelʹnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: air leth
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: изузетан

Roman: izuzetan (sh)
Slovak: výnimočný
Slovene: izjemen
Spanish: excepcional (es)
Ukrainian: винятко́вий (vynjatkóvyj)

superior due to exception or rarity

Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَائِيّ (istiṯnāʔiyy)
Azerbaijani: müstəsna
Belarusian: вынятко́вы (vynjatkóvy), адме́нны (admjénny), адме́тны (be) (admjétny)
Bulgarian: отли́чен (bg) (otlíčen), изключи́телен (bg) (izključítelen)
Catalan: excepcional (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 優越 / 优越 (zh) (yōuyuè), 傑出 / 杰出 (zh) (jiéchū), 優異 / 优异 (zh) (yōuyì), 非凡 (zh) (fēifán), 超群 (zh) (chāoqún)
Czech: výjimečný (cs) m
Danish: enestående, eksceptionel
Finnish: poikkeuksellinen (fi), erinomainen (fi)
French: exceptionnel (fr)
Friulian: famôs
German: außergewöhnlich (de)
Greek: εξαιρετικός (el) m (exairetikós)
Hebrew: מְצֻיָּן (he) m (metzuyyán)
Hungarian: kivételes (hu), rendkívüli (hu)
Irish: eisceachtúil
Italian: eccezionale (it)
Japanese: 並外れた (ja) (namihazureta), 別格の (ja) (bekkaku no), 非凡な (ja) (hibon na)
Latin: eximius
Malayalam: അസാധാരണ (ml) (asādhāraṇa)
Maori: inati
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eksepsjonell

Nynorsk: eksepsjonell
Polish: wyjątkowy (pl) m
Portuguese: excepcional (pt), excecional (Portugal)
Russian: исключи́тельный (ru) (isključítelʹnyj), отли́чный (ru) (otlíčnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: air leth
Spanish: excepcional (es)
Ukrainian: винятко́вий (vynjatkóvyj), відмі́нний (uk) (vidmínnyj)

exceptional (plural exceptionals)

An exception, or something having an exceptional value
- 1909, Pediatrics, volume 21, page 276:
  Above and beyond all these exceptionals, by reason of divergencies from the norms of mental and of physical status, there are quite a number of moral defectives.

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