<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>worthy of imitation; commendable: exemplary conduct.</li><li>Synonyms: praiseworthy, noteworthy, laudable</li><li>serving as a warning: an exemplary penalty.</li><li>serving as an illustration or specimen; illustrative; typical: The sentences read are exemplary of the style of the essay as a whole.</li><li>serving as a model or pattern: The authoritative and exemplary text of the work is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.</li><li>of, relating to, or composed of exempla, or examples or models: the exemplary literature of the medieval period.</li></ul>