Extraordinary vs Wonderful - What's the difference?
extraordinary | wonderful |
Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
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Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
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As adjectives the difference between extraordinary and wonderful
is that extraordinary is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual while wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.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 renditionwonderful
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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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