Wonderful vs Nicely - What's the difference?
wonderful | nicely |
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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(obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.
*1926 , (Ford Madox Ford), A Man Could Stand Up—'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 580:
*:An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 59:
Pleasantly; satisfactorily.
As an adjective wonderful
is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.As an adverb nicely is
(obsolete) fastidiously; carefully.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
*nicely
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Adverb
(en adverb)- He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
- Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.