Thrilling vs Useful - What's the difference?
thrilling | useful |
Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
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, title= Having a practical or beneficial use.
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As adjectives the difference between thrilling and useful
is that thrilling is causing the feeling of a sudden excitement while useful is having a practical or beneficial use.As a verb thrilling
is .As a noun thrilling
is a thrill.thrilling
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Synonyms
* See alsouseful
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Adjective
(en adjective)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}