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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious vs Excellent - What's the difference?

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | excellent |

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

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  • Fantastic, very wonderful
  • * {{quote-video
  • , date = 1964-08-27 , title = , people = Julie Andrews , role = Mary Poppins , passage = It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious . }}
  • * {{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 . }}
  • * {{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 . }}

    excellent

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of the highest quality; splendid.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • 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 .
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * excellence * excellently * excellentness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Excellently.
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
  • Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].

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