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Antonyms for excel
ɪkˈsɛlex·cel

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Princeton's WordNet4.5 / 2 votes

  1. excel, stand out, surpassverb

    distinguish oneself

    "She excelled in math"

    Synonyms:
    surmount, outmatch, exceed, outgo, go past, outperform, travel by, leap out, stick out, pass, stand out, jump out, outstrip, transcend, go by, pass by, outdo, surpass, jump

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. excelverb

    Synonyms:
    outrival, outstrip, surpass, eclipse, outdo, outvie, transcend, exceed

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD5.0 / 1 vote

  1. EXCEL

    Synonyms:
    Expanded Clinical Evaluation of Lovastatin on lipid-lowering

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  1. failnoun

    Submitted by culleng24 on April 28, 2022  

How to use excel in a sentence?

  1. Vince Lombardi:

    The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

  2. Faith Sullivan:

    She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.

  3. Vince Lombardi:

    The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

  4. Catherine Salmon:

    If the firstborn can't excel at what the family values, for example, that position could shift to another child.

  5. John Adams:

    It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

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