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adjective un·ex·cep·tion·al \ˌən-ik-ˈsep-shnəl, -shə-nəl\

Definition of unexceptional

  1. :  not out of the ordinary :  commonplace

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Examples of unexceptional in a Sentence

  1. As an actor he was unexceptional, but he had a beautiful singing voice.

  2. the physicist, now regarded as one of the brightest minds in science, was an unexceptional student as a child

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1806

unexceptional Synonyms

Synonyms
average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried (also cut-and-dry), everyday, garden-variety, normal, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, ordinary, unremarkable, usual, workaday
Antonyms
abnormal, exceptional, extraordinary, odd, out-of-the-way, strange, unusual
Related Words
regular, typical, unextraordinary; familiar, homely, plain, plain-Jane, popular, vulgar; natural; customary, wonted; insignificant, trivial, unimportant; frequent, habitual; expected, predictable
Near Antonyms
curious, funny, peculiar, quaint, queer; aberrant, anomalous, atypical, irregular, untypical; rare, recherché, scarce; fantastic (also fantastical), phenomenal; bizarre, far-out, Kafkaesque, outrageous, outré, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird, wild; eccentric, idiosyncratic, kooky (also kookie), nonconformist, oddball, offbeat, unconventional, unorthodox; freak, freakish; conspicuous, notable, novel, outstanding, prominent, salient, signal, striking, unexampled, unprecedented; singular, unique, unparalleled

UNEXCEPTIONAL Defined for English Language Learners

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Definition of unexceptional for English Language Learners

  • : not unusually good, interesting, etc. : not exceptional

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