Excellent vs Wondrous - What's the difference?
excellent | wondrous |
Of the highest quality; splendid.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
Exceptionally good of its kind.
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*(David Hume) (1711-1776)
*:an excellent hypocrite
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Their sorrows are most excellent .
(obsolete) Excellently.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
Amazing, inspiring awe, "to be marvelled at".
In a wonderful degree; remarkably.
*XIX century , , by Emily Dickinson
*:As by the dead we love to sit, / Become so wondrous dear — / As for the lost we grapple / Tho' all the rest are here [...]
As adjectives the difference between excellent and wondrous
is that excellent is of the highest quality; splendid while wondrous is amazing, inspiring awe, "to be marvelled at".As adverbs the difference between excellent and wondrous
is that excellent is excellently while wondrous is in a wonderful degree; remarkably.excellent
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Synonyms
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* excellence * excellently * excellentnessAdverb
(en adverb)- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We all stared open mouthed at the wondrous sight, speechless.