Definition of excellent

• a. - Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.
• a. - Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.
• adv. - Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.