Adjective: unexceptional
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more unexceptional |
| Superlative | most unexceptional |
Sample Sentences
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Uncle Shemp was alarmingly unexceptional. He had no detectable lifestyle, and his only accomplishment was the fact that he was a lifelong member of the general public. [2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 286:]
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In the other direction, treatments that were decried in their time as paving the road to hell, including vaccination, transfusions, anesthesia, artificial insemination, organ transplants, and in-vitro fertilization, have become unexceptional boons to human well-being. [2015 August 1, Steven Pinker, “The moral imperative for bioethics”, in The Boston Globe, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2015:]
Adjectives inflected like unexceptional
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *né
3. Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
4. Proto-Germanic *un-
5. Proto-West Germanic *un-
6. Old English un-
7. Middle English un-
8. English un-
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
10. Proto-Indo-European *-s
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
12. Proto-Italic *eks
13. Latin ex
14. Latin ex-
15. substratebor.?
16. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
17. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
18. Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
19. Proto-Italic *kapjō
20. Old Latin kapiō
21. Latin capiō
22. Latin excipiō
23. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
24. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
25. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
26. Proto-Italic *-tiō
27. Latin -tiō
28. Latin exceptiōder.
29. Old French excepcion
30. Anglo-Norman excepciounbor.
31. Middle English exception
32. English exception
33. English -al
34. English exceptional
35. English unexceptional
36. From un- + exceptional.