Wonderful vs Reliable - What's the difference?
wonderful | reliable | Related terms |
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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Suitable]] or fit to be [[rely on, relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy
(signal processing, of a communication protocol) Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
Wonderful is a related term of reliable.
As adjectives the difference between wonderful and reliable
is that wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary while reliable is suitable]] or fit to be [[rely on|relied on; worthy of dependence or reliance; trustworthy.As a noun reliable is
something or someone or dependable.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
*reliable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles. -- .
- The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. -- .
- According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable , being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs. --.