How to say "exceptionally" in Japanese

• 格別かくべつJLPT N2approx.Common
  adverbCovers 'exceptionally' in the sense of 'particularly, out of the ordinary': something that stands clearly apart from the usual run, as in exceptionally fine work or an exceptionally memorable trip.
• 特段とくだんCommon
  adverbSeldom the word you want for affirmative 'exceptionally': it really serves to say that there is nothing special or unusual, as in reports of no particular problems or nothing out of the ordinary.
• とびきりCommon
  noun, adverbThe emphatic choice: something extraordinarily good or intense, by far beyond the ordinary — exceptionally sweet fruit, an exceptionally pretty town. It is usually written in kana alone.
  マイクは君きみの妹いもうとのこと、とびきりいかしてるって思おもってるんだ。↗

  Mike really thought your sister was something else.

Choose 格別 for something markedly special or better than usual, 「とびきり」 for emphatic praise of something extraordinarily good, and 特段 chiefly in negative statements meaning 'nothing in particular or unusual', rarely for affirmative 'exceptionally'.

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• ことのほかexceedingly
• すぐれてextremely
• 超がつくちょうがつくextremely
• 馬鹿にばかにridiculously
• 超のつくちょうのつくextremely
• 突出してとっしゅつしてespecially
• 格別かくべつparticularly
• 特段とくだんespecially
• とびきりexceptionally
• とびっきりexceptionally
• ばかincredibly