Wonderful vs Shining - What's the difference?
wonderful | shining | 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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Emitting light.
*
, title= Reflecting light.
Having a high polish or sheen.
Having exceptional merit.
Wonderful is a related term of shining.
As adjectives the difference between wonderful and shining
is that wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary while shining is emitting light.As a verb shining is
.As a noun shining is
a bright emission of light; a gleam.wonderful
English
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
*shining
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Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining , and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}