Joyful vs Wonderful - What's the difference?
joyful | wonderful | Related terms |
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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As adjectives the difference between joyful and wonderful
is that joyful is feeling or causing joy while wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.wonderful
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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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