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extraordinariness

/ik-strawr-dn-er-ee, ek-struh-awr-/US // ɪkˈstrɔr dnˌɛr i, ˌɛk strəˈɔr- //UK // (ɪkˈstrɔːdənrɪ, -dənərɪ) //

超群绝伦,超凡脱俗,超常,超凡

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
    • : exceptional in character, amount, extent, degree, etc.; noteworthy; remarkable: extraordinary speed; an extraordinary man.
    • : outside of or additional to the ordinary staff; having a special, often temporary task or responsibility: minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inoddity
as inunnaturalness
as inabnormality

Examples

  • The Food That Built America, a new podcast from OZY and The History Channel, tells the extraordinary true stories behind some of your favorite foods and brands.

  • The thing that was so extraordinary about what happened in the pandemic is what happened in August and September.

  • As Henderson and Foege detail in their books, there were extraordinary challenges that often looked utterly insurmountable in the quest to eradicate smallpox.

  • On this front, outcomes from the Pfizer and Moderna trials are extraordinary.

  • The Food That Built America, a new podcast from OZY and the History Channel, tells the extraordinary true stories behind some of your favorite foods and brands.

  • This breach is an extraordinary emotional drag on the exhausted population.

  • And yet our country has redefined citizenship in some extraordinary ways since its inception.

  • This is an extraordinary recording that deserves to be much better known.

  • “It is extraordinary that in one week of contemporary art auctions almost $2 billion worth of art was sold,” he says.

  • The history of horrors in the North Caucasus is so extraordinary and so long as to seem almost otherworldly.

  • At this moment an extraordinary commotion began among the watches.

  • The fingers of all the clocks in the house were revolving with the most extraordinary rapidity--she was helpless.

  • An extraordinary eruption of mount Vesuvius commenced, which in ten days had advanced ten miles from its original source.

  • Why expect that extraordinary virtues should be in one person united, when one virtue makes a man extraordinary?

  • The only thing that at all tended to shake this conviction, was the extraordinary poltroonery of our new captive.