Expert vs. Excellent — What's the Difference?

An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field. Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain.

Extremely good; outstanding

A person with a high degree of skill in or knowledge of a certain subject.

Used to indicate approval or pleasure

Having, involving, or demonstrating skill in or knowledge of a certain subject.

Of the highest or finest quality; exceptionally good for its kind

Extraordinarily capable or knowledgeable.

(Archaic) Being so to an extreme degree.

Characteristic of an expert.

Having excelled, having surpassed.

(obsolete) Proven, experienced, veteran.

Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.

A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.

Exceptionally good of its kind.

(chess) A player ranking just below master.

Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

(obsolete) Excellently.

An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.

A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; - used with words of a bad significance.

A sworn appraiser.

Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.

To experience.

Of the highest quality;

A person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;