EXCEPTIONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exceptionally mean? 

• EXCEPTIONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXCEPTIONALLY has 1 sense:

1. to an exceptional degree

  Familiarity information: EXCEPTIONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCEPTIONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an exceptional degree

Context example:

it worked exceptionally well

Pertainym:

exceptional (far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree)

 Context examples 

You will do exceptionally well financially on March 20.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Lymphokine-activated killer cells (LAKs) are cytotoxic effector cells with an exceptionally wide target cell spectrum including normal and malignant cells of different origins.

(Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

I feel it give a little, said he; but, though I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my time to break it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My own nervous system is an exceptionally sensitive one.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Many of these disordered materials, metallic glass, for example, are exceptionally strong, stronger than other metals, which offers potential for many industrial uses.

(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)

Among humans, this capacity is exceptionally abstract.

(Infants Are Able to Learn Abstract Rules Visually, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"The traditional thinking about these exceptionally preserved fossil sites is wrong," said lead author Drew Muscente of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)

It shows, my dear Watson, that we are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are exceptionally well informed, Summerlee, as to the habits of the enraged pterodactyl.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Human Oncogene NMYC is a mutated variant of NMYC Gene (MYC Family), which encodes two nuclear N-MYC Proteins from the same mRNA; both are phosphorylated, exceptionally unstable and bind to single- and double-stranded DNA.

(Oncogene MYCN, NCI Thesaurus)