Wonderful vs Lighthearted - What's the difference?
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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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Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive. Not depressed or sad.
Enjoyable lack of seriousness, not grave.
Wonderful is a related term of lighthearted.
As adjectives the difference between wonderful and lighthearted
is that wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary while lighthearted is joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive not depressed or sad.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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Synonyms
* great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* terrible, horribleStatistics
*Anagrams
*lighthearted
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The lighthearted young lovers ran over the hills.
- His lighthearted banjo was appreciated because it relieved the tension in tight situations.