unexceptional
English
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Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English unexceptional
From un- + exceptional.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌʌnɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]unexceptional (comparative more unexceptional, superlative most unexceptional)
- Not exceptional.
- Synonyms: lackluster, pedestrian; mundane, plain; see also Thesaurus:mediocre, Thesaurus:normal
- Antonym: exceptional
- 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 286:
- Uncle Shemp was alarmingly unexceptional. He had no detectable lifestyle, and his only accomplishment was the fact that he was a lifelong member of the general public.
- 2015 August 1, Steven Pinker, “The moral imperative for bioethics”, in The Boston Globe[2], archived from the original on 3 December 2015:
- In the other direction, treatments that were decried in their time as paving the road to hell, including vaccination, transfusions, anesthesia, artificial insemination, organ transplants, and in-vitro fertilization, have become unexceptional boons to human well-being.
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- English terms prefixed with un- (negative)
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)
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