1. exceptional - Noun
2. exceptional - Adjective
3. exceptional - Adjective Satellite
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. James Jeans
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. Thornton Wilder
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that. Dale Carnegie
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. Cesare Lombroso
Neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. John Foster Dulles