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Wonderful vs Overwhelming - What's the difference?

wonderful | overwhelming |

As adjectives the difference between wonderful and overwhelming

is that wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary while overwhelming is overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.

As a verb overwhelming is

present participle of to overwhelm .

wonderful

English

Alternative forms

* wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
  • * 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:
    • He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.
  • Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
    • They served a wonderful six-course meal.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 29 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) citation , page= , passage=Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.}}

    Synonyms

    * great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * terrible, horrible

    Related terms

    * wonder * wonderfully * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous

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    overwhelming

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of to overwhelm .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Overpowering, staggering, or irresistibly strong.
  • *
    • The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.
  • Very great or intense.
  • Extreme.

    • Antonyms

    * underwhelming