[
UK
/ˈɛksələntli/
]
[ US /ˈɛksəɫəntɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛksəɫəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
extremely well
he did splendidly in the exam
we got along famously
How To Use excellently In A Sentence
- I have never tasted such excellently prepared food; the chef obviously spends a great deal of time and care over both the preparation and presentation.
- Our police and firefighters handled it excellently.
- Finally after 15 minutes of perseverance the team scored -- not to the liking of the opposition, who had been defending excellently.
- He was excellently placed to be the next Poet Laureate when the position fell vacant in ninety-six.
- The music adds to the general mood and feel of the title excellently well and ties the whole package together. Cubed3.com News
- The new scintillating bolometer has performed excellently, proving its viability as a detector in experiments to look for dark matter, and also as a gamma spectrometer a device that measures this type of radiation to monitor background radiation in these experiments", says García Abancéns. A Prototype Detector for Dark Matter in the Milky Way | Universe Today
- Madly in love with Bartlett is tough nightclub hostess "Panama" Smith, excellently played by the young actress.
- Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance A Tale in Two Parts
- This letter, being so excellently ignorant ... it comes from a clodpole. Season finales
- With the brightly coloured banderillas (barbed darts) he approaches the bull excellently and positions them carefully on the neck, bringing the crowd to its feet with applause.