Extraordinary vs Forby - What's the difference?
extraordinary | forby |
Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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Past; by; beyond.
* 1899 , Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology :
Uncommonly; exceptionally.
Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
Past; gone by; over.
Near; beside; by, close to.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
On one side; out of the way.
Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.
With the exception of; not taking into account.
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As adjectives the difference between extraordinary and forby
is that extraordinary is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual; while forby is uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.As an adverb forby is
past; by; beyond.As a preposition forby is
beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.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.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
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 renditionforby
English
Alternative forms
* foreby * (l)Adverb
(en adverb)- To see the world and folk that went forby , [...]
- He was forby kind.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.
- There was other six forby me.