[ UK /ɛksˈiːdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈsidɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
    the young Mozart's prodigious talents
    a night of exceeding darkness
    olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy
    an exceptional memory
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How To Use exceeding In A Sentence

  • The two ends put together form one constant table for everything, and the centre piece stands exceedingly well under the glass, and holds a great deal most commodiously.
  • He was an exceedingly capable and highly regarded individual. Times, Sunday Times
  • This process, called supergene enrichment, can concentrate silver into exceedingly rich deposits at depth.
  • The Second Battle of Niagara Our dreams exceeding by thy bounteous spray.
  • And still major leaguers blew it last season, triggering a more stringent form of testing by exceeding the five-percent threshold of positive results.
  • This makes the task of introducing tolerance to parasites or disease via genetic modification exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
  • “Night and day praying exceedingly,” that is, praying out of measure, with intense earnestness, superabundantly, beyond measure, exceeding abundantly. The Weapon of Prayer
  • The most important was that "surprises' were exceedingly dangerous in the nuclear age. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
  • She was exceedingly beautiful, fully grown yet young still, and in her eyes was a depth and maturity that never ceased to captivate the looker.
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