Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious vs Excellent - What's the difference?
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | excellent |
Fantastic, very wonderful
* {{quote-video
, date = 1964-08-27
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, people = Julie Andrews
, role = Mary Poppins
, passage = It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious .
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* {{quote-book
, date = 2010-03-15
, title = The Beautiful People and Other Aggravations
, first = Rose Madeline
, last = Mula
, location = Gretna
, publisher = Pelican Publishing
, isbn = 9781589806887
, ol = 24521586M
, page = 91
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=aqb3OYAzq1kC&pg=PA91&dq=supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
, passage = By comparison with the present transcribers, I'm sure my performance would be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious .
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* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, title = I Ain't Done Yet
, first = Mary B.
, last = Allberry
, location = Victoria
, publisher = FriesenPress
, isbn = 9781770677036
, ol = 25422249M
, page = 91
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=gq8tGscHXvYC&pg=PA91&dq=supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
, passage = This is a real biggie so pay attention—I still pinch myself occasionally to even believe I did this; it was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious .
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Of the highest quality; splendid.
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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
Exceptionally good of its kind.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
*(David Hume) (1711-1776)
*:an excellent hypocrite
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Their sorrows are most excellent .
(obsolete) Excellently.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
As adjectives the difference between supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and excellent
is that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is fantastic, very wonderful while excellent is of the highest quality; splendid.As an adverb excellent is
(obsolete) excellently.supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Adjective
(-)excellent
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(wikipedia excellent)Adjective
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* excellence * excellently * excellentnessAdverb
(en adverb)- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].