Synonyms:
exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing
Meaning: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
Usage examples
And quickly Aeson's son, with good will exceeding, addressed him:
They were retreating before an army not exceeding their own, in numbers, perhaps less.
Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband's love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income.
Right in the middle of the field malign There yawns a well exceeding wide and deep, Of which its place the structure will recount.
I spoke at length, and perseveringly of my devotion, of my passion--of her exceeding beauty, and of my own enthusiastic admiration.
Mr. Micawber coughed, and drank his punch with an air of exceeding satisfaction--still glancing at Traddles, as if he desired to have his opinion.
Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast.
Hence it must be said that the angels, even inasmuch as they are immaterial substances, exist in exceeding great number, far beyond all material multitude.
The Commander of the Faithful Harun Al-Rashid was exceeding restless one night and rising from his bed, paced from chamber to chamber, but could not compose himself to sleep.
Their military weapons attained colossal proportions, and their projectiles, exceeding the prescribed limits, unfortunately occasionally cut in two some unoffending pedestrians.