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OUTSTANDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does outstanding mean?
• OUTSTANDING (adjective)
The adjective OUTSTANDING has 4 senses:
1. distinguished from others in excellence
2. having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
3. owed as a debt
4. of major significance or importance
Familiarity information: OUTSTANDING used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distinguished from others in excellence
Context example:
an outstanding war record
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
Synonyms:
outstanding; prominent; salient; spectacular; striking
Context example:
a striking resemblance between parent and child
Similar:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Owed as a debt
Synonyms:
outstanding; owing; undischarged
Context example:
undischarged debts
Similar:
unpaid (not paid)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of major significance or importance
Synonyms:
great; outstanding
Context example:
Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey
Similar:
Context examples
Mars will be in an outstanding position to the full moon and Sun, bringing joy to all home and family-related actions.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Has he any one outstanding quality?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This award is intended to foster the development of outstanding scientists and enable them to expand their potential to make significant contributions to their field of research.
(Independent Scientist Award, NCI Thesaurus)
His whole face sharpened away into nose and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over his outstanding bones.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This special award is aimed at fostering the research careers of outstanding, junior, basic, clinical, and behavioral scientists who are committed to developing research programs highly relevant to the understanding of human biology and human disease as it relates to the etiology, pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
(Howard Temin Award, NCI Thesaurus)
There was a sale of the furniture and lease, at Norwood; and Tiffey told me, little thinking how interested I was in the story, that, paying all the just debts of the deceased, and deducting his share of outstanding bad and doubtful debts due to the firm, he wouldn't give a thousand pounds for all the assets remaining.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
While all of 2020 will be outstanding for scoring career gains, this could be the most special one of all.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
His tangled beard, grizzled hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were tinged with a shade of blue.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of your best days for career will fall on the same day as the outstanding full moon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
On December 15 (plus or minus two days), Uranus and Jupiter will work together to send you a surprise, possibly in the form of an outstanding opportunity that will be tailor-made for you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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