exceptional

Adjective

• deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence
  • special educational provisions for exceptional children
    

• surpassing what is common or usual or expected
  • he paid especial attention to her
    
  • exceptional kindness
    
  • a matter of particular and unusual importance
    
  • a special occasion
    
  • a special reason to confide in her
    
  • what's so special about the year 2000?
    

• far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
  • a night of exceeding darkness
    
  • an exceptional memory
    
  • olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy
    
  • the young Mozart's prodigious talents
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  exceptional(a) , especial(a) , particular(a) , special , exceeding , olympian , prodigious , surpassing