unexceptionally
- adverb
- /ˌʌnɪkˈsɛpʃənəli/
- He delivered an unexceptionally polished presentation that met all the standard expectations.
Examples
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While it doubtless pleased this student with the unexceptionally pretty face, it also lessened me in her eyes.
Fiction book (1997) -
The hotel was unexceptionally comfortable, offering basic amenities without any extra flair.
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His writing was, all of it, unexceptionally canny rhetoric with a populist feel, though it was also, almost all of it, beyond popular reading.
Fiction book (1991) -
The behavioral revolution drew on a reformist liberalism that seemed to its devotees to dovetail unexceptionally with their "empiricism." 19
Academic text (1995) -
Iran is not, despite common depictions, a messianic power determined to overturn the regional order in the name of Islamic militancy; it is an unexceptionally opportunistic state seeking to assert predominance in its immediate neighborhood.
Academic text (2008) -
The movie was enjoyable but unexceptionally so; it did not stand out from similar films.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unexceptionally = unexceptional (transparent) = un + exception + al + ly
Formed regularly by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'unexceptional', so the adverbial meaning is predictable.
Etymology
Unexceptionally starts with un- meaning 'not' and comes from exceptional, which means 'standing out' or 'unusual'. So unexceptionally means 'not standing out', that is, 'ordinary' or 'normal'.