The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - exceptprep.

1) Sometimes except for. excepting, save, but, excluding, exclusive of, barring, bar, with the exception of, omitting, not counting, apart from, but for, other than, saving: There was no one there except us. Except for us, no one came. --conj. 2) except that. except or but (for the fact) that, but, save that: He would have gone except that he has no car. --v. 3) exclude, omit, leave out, excuse: As usual, the wealthy were excepted from the tax increase.