Exceptional
Exceptional adjective - Being out of the ordinary.
Lone and exceptional are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lone" instead an adjective "Exceptional".
Lone
Lone adjective - Being the one or ones of a class with no other members.
Exceptional and lone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exceptional" instead an adjective "Lone".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- rare and exceptional
- rare and lone
- special and exceptional
- special and lone
- distinctive and exceptional
- distinctive and lone
- particular and exceptional
- particular and lone
- especial and exceptional
- especial and lone
- singular and exceptional
- singular and lone
- exclusive and exceptional
- exclusive and lone
Both words in one sentence
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Though all three of the playable characters in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep wield Keyblades for melee attacks, Aqua, the lone female, is singled out as being an exceptional mage, and most of her unique moves and abilities are spell-based.
Source: Guys Smash, Girls Shoot -
However the elite knights were slaughtered by huge volleys, one on one an elite warrior is better than a lone soldier with a gun, or rifle; unless that soldier has exceptional gear, armour and the like, it's the peasant armies that beat the few knights.
Source: Guns Are Worthless - Often not quite as disastrous as the lone exceptional Consummate Liar, because once you figure out that the Ferengi are immune to your telepathy, you quit trying to use it on them to gather information.
Source: Consummate Liar
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