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Wonderful vs Unusual - What's the difference?

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Wonderful is a related term of unusual.


As adjectives the difference between wonderful and unusual

is that wonderful is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary while unusual is unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.

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

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    unusual

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unusuall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unlike what is expected; differing in some way from the norm.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
  • Not usual.
  • Synonyms

    * (different from the expected) abnormal, rare, strange, weird, (stronger) extraordinary ** See also

    Antonyms

    * (different from the expected) normal, usual