Celebrated vs Wonderful - What's the difference?
celebrated | wonderful | Related terms |
famous or widely praised for good works
(celebrate)
Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:
Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
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, date=April 29
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, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)
As adjectives the difference between celebrated and wonderful
is that celebrated is famous or widely praised for good works while wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.As a verb celebrated
is past tense of celebrate.celebrated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She became a celebrated actress, but never won any major awards.
Verb
(head)See also
* well-knownwonderful
English
Alternative forms
* wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.
- They served a wonderful six-course meal.
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