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especial

Syllables: es·pe·cial/ɛsˈpɛʃəl/

especial adjective: exceptional in importance or significance; special.

Adjective

especial (comparative more especial, superlative most especial)

  1. Exceptional in importance or significance; special.
    • Pay especial attention to chapter five.
    • an especial hatred of cats
  2. Particular.
    • acting with no especial goal
    • Only one modern picture was admitted, and that was a likeness of Constance, painted under her father's especial instructions.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 270

especial meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

especial in Urdu

خاص

especial in Malayalam

പ്രമുഖമായ, പ്രത്യേകമായ, വിശിഷ്ടമായ, സവിശേഷമായ

especial in Kannada

ಪ್ರಮುಖ, ಮುಖ್ಯ, ಅಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ, ಅಸಾಧಾರಣ, ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ, ವಿಶೇಷ

Examples of especial in a sentence

  • [...] this is of especial value in foggy weather.1941 July, “The Why and the Wherefore: Inner and Outer Distant Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
  • Starting from this base list, a number of databases were systematically searched for terms, with especial effort taken to discover the earliest attestation possible[.]2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:

Forms of especial

comparativemore especial
superlativemost especial
alternative form (obsolete)especiall

Origin of especial

From Middle English especial, via Old French especial, from Latin specialis, from species (“appearance, form, beauty”), from specere (“to look”). Doublet of special. Related to species.

Words formed from especial

Words that rhyme with especial

Questions about especial

What does especial mean?
Especial means exceptional in importance or significance; special.
What is especial in Urdu?
Especial in Urdu is خاص. See Especial meaning in Urdu.
How do you use especial in a sentence?
[...] this is of especial value in foggy weather.
What part of speech is especial?
Especial is an adjective.
How do you pronounce especial?
Especial is pronounced /ɛsˈpɛʃəl/.

Words near especial in the dictionary

  1. espauliere
  2. espaulieres
  3. Español
  4. Española
  5. Españolas
  6. especial
  7. especiality
  8. especialize
  9. especiall
  10. especially
  11. especialness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: especial (page history and authors); especial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); especial (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); especial (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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