special

Meanings

Adjective

• Distinguished by a unique or unusual quality.
• Of particular personal interest or value; dear; beloved.
• Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.
• Constituting or relating to a species.
• Chief in excellence.
• Of or related to unconventional warfare.

Noun

• A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.
• One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.
• Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
• A special constable.
• Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
• Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
• A correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
• A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
• A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
• A person appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.

Verb

• To supervise a patient one-on-one.

Related

Opposite words

• common, non-special, ordinary, usual

Origin

• From Middle English *special, especial, especiall, from Old French especial (whence also French spécial), from Latin specialis (from species). Displaced native . especial.