Extraordinary vs Compounder - What's the difference?
extraordinary | compounder |
Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)
One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
* Burke
One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
* Hudibras
(UK, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
(UK, historical) A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of (James II), on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.
As an adjective extraordinary
is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;.As a noun compounder is
a person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result).extraordinary
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Adjective
(en adjective)2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France, passage=Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.}}
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Usage notes
* Can be said of all kinds of objects including people, events, things, and terms. * The pronunciation "extrordinary" is often preferred so as to avoid confusion with "extra ordinary", which would be defined as "more ordinary than usual".Synonyms
*Antonyms
* everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usualDerived terms
* extraordinary optical transmission * extraordinary professor * extraordinary renditioncompounder
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Noun
(en noun)- a compounder of medicines
- Compounder in politics.
- Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.