unexceptional
/ˌʌnɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
unexceptional adjective: not exceptional.
Adjective
unexceptional (comparative more unexceptional, superlative most unexceptional)
- Not exceptional.
- 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.2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 286
- 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.2015 August 1, Steven Pinker, “The moral imperative for bioethics”, in The Boston Globe, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2015
- Synonyms:
- lackluster, pedestrian, mundane, plain, average, comme ci comme ça, crappy, moderate, decent, indifferent
- Antonyms:
- exceptional
unexceptional meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
unexceptional in Urdu
- بےعیب, بےنقص
unexceptional in Malayalam
- average, ordinary, typical
- സവിശേഷതയില്ലാത്ത, അസാധാരണമെന്നു പറയാനാവാത്ത, സവിശേഷതയൊന്നുമില്ലാത്ത, വെറും സാധാരണമായ, വിശേഷാലൊന്നുമില്ലാത്ത, സാമാന്യമായ
Synonyms of unexceptional
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- meh
- mediocre
- mid
- middling
- no great shakes
- nothing to write home about
- not worth writing home about
- OK
- okayish
- ordinary
- uninspiring
- shitty
- so-so
- ok-ok
- tolerable
- whatever
- medial
- basic
- bog-standard
- common
- commonplace
- common-and-garden
- common-or-garden
- congruent
- consistent
- conventional
- customary
- everyday
- expected
- garden variety
Antonyms
Forms of unexceptional
| comparative | more unexceptional |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unexceptional |
Origin of unexceptional
From un- + exceptional.
Words formed from unexceptional
Questions about unexceptional
- What does unexceptional mean?
- Unexceptional means not exceptional.
- What is unexceptional in Urdu?
- Unexceptional in Urdu is بےعیب, بےنقص. See Unexceptional meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is unexceptional?
- Unexceptional is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unexceptional?
- Unexceptional is pronounced /ˌʌnɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/.
Words near unexceptional in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unexceptional (page history and authors); unexceptional (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unexceptional (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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