outstanding
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- excellent, exceptional, great, important, impressive, special, superior, superlative
- unpaid, due, payable, pending, remaining, uncollected, unsettled

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English Thesaurus: excellent, great, fantastic/terrific/wonderful, amazing/incredible, superb, ...

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out‧stand‧ing W3 /aʊtˈstændɪŋ/ adjective
[Word Family: adjective: standing, outstanding, upstanding; noun: stand, standing; verb: stand; adverb: outstandingly]

1. extremely good:
an outstanding example of a 13th-century castle
an outstanding success
His performance was outstanding.

2. not yet done, solved, or paid:
We’ve got quite a few debts still outstanding.
an outstanding issue

3. very great or clear:
The question of who is in charge is of outstanding importance.

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outstanding
adj.
I. excellent
VERBS be | consider sth
ADV. particularly, really, truly | absolutely, quite That was a quite outstanding performance!

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outstanding
II. not yet paid or done
VERBS be, remain Two or three tasks still remain outstanding.
leave sth One option may be to leave the debt outstanding and extend the payment terms.
ADV. still 75 per cent of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding.

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excellent extremely good or of very high quality:
His English was excellent.
an excellent piece of work
great spoken extremely good. Great is less formal than excellent, and is the usual word to use in everyday spoken English:
‘Did you have a good holiday?' 'It was great!’
He did a great job as captain.
fantastic/terrific/wonderful spoken extremely good. These words sound even more excited than great or excellent:
‘I passed my exam.’ ‘That’s fantastic!’
Last year Jess had a terrific season, averaging eleven points a game.
The trip will be a wonderful opportunity for the children.
amazing/incredible extremely good in a surprising and exciting way:
an amazing view of Tokyo
The trip was an incredible experience.
superb extremely good – used especially when you are very impressed by something:
The acting was superb.
There is a superb range of cheeses.
first-class of a high quality and much better than most others:
The service is first-class.
a first-class restaurant
outstanding extremely good – used when saying how well someone does something:
He’s an outstanding player.
It was an outstanding performance by a talented young actor.
exceptional unusually good – used when saying that someone or something is much better than any others:
She has an exceptional talent.
He writes good essays, but I wouldn’t say that his work is particularly exceptional.
Merits are given as an honour for exceptional achievement.
out of this world [not before noun] spoken informal used when saying that something is so good that it is better than anything you could have imagined:
The food is out of this world.
awesome especially American English very good:
It was an awesome concert.

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