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Plenipotentiary vs Extraordinary - What's the difference?

plenipotentiary | extraordinary |

As adjectives the difference between plenipotentiary and extraordinary

is that plenipotentiary is invested with full power while extraordinary is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;.

As a noun plenipotentiary

is a person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.

plenipotentiary

English

(wikipedia plenipotentiary)

Noun

(plenipotentiaries)
  • A person invested with full power, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter
    • 1985': Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah '''plenipotentiary . — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked

    Derived terms

    * (ambassador and) minister plenipotentiary

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "plenipotentiary")

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Invested with full power.
  • Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent

    • Synonyms

    * plenipotent

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "plenipotentiary")

    extraordinary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
  • *
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  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Remarkably good.

    • 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, usual

    Derived terms

    * extraordinary optical transmission * extraordinary professor * extraordinary rendition