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unexceptional

/ˌʌnɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/

unexceptional adjective: not exceptional.

Adjective

unexceptional (comparative more unexceptional, superlative most unexceptional)

  1. 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
    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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Antonyms

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Forms of unexceptional

comparativemore unexceptional
superlativemost 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

  1. unexcepting
  2. unexceptionability
  3. unexceptionable
  4. unexceptionableness
  5. unexceptionably
  6. unexceptional
  7. unexceptionally
  8. unexceptionalness
  9. unexceptive
  10. unexcerpted
  11. unexcessive

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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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