Outstanding | Mean of outstanding in English Dictionary

/aʊtˈstændɪŋ/

• extremely good or excellent
1. Tonight we will honor the school's most outstanding students/teachers/athletes/performers.
2. You did an outstanding job on the project.
3. the outstanding quality of your work
4. a wine that is outstanding in quality
5. As a president, he was outstanding in many ways.
6. Her novels are outstanding for their complex characters and interesting plots.
7. The painting is an outstanding example of the artist's style.
• easy to notice especially because of being important or very good
1. There are some outstanding [=conspicuous] exceptions to this rule.
2. Outstanding among the menu items were the tomato soup and the swordfish.
• not yet paid
1. outstanding [=unpaid] bills
2. She had several outstanding parking tickets in her car.
3. He left a balance of 50 dollars outstanding on his account.

• continuing to exist
1. It remains one of the long outstanding [=unresolved] problems in mathematics.
2. There are several outstanding issues between the two countries.