different between extraordinary vs compounder

English

Alternative forms

• extra-ordinary
• extraördinary (rare)

Etymology

From Latin extr??rdin?rius, from extr? ?rdinem (“outside the order”); equivalent to extra- +? ordinary. Doublet of extraordinaire.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ks?t???(?)d?n??i/, /?ks?t???(?)d?n?i/, /??kst?????(?)d?n??i/, /??kst?????(?)d?n?i/
• Hyphenation: ex?traor?di?na?ry

Adjective

extraordinary (comparative more extraordinary, superlative most extraordinary)

1. Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
2. Remarkably good.

3. Special or supernumerary.

   the physician extraordinary in a royal household

   an extraordinary professor in a German university

Synonyms

• exceptional
• unparalleled
• noteworthy
• outstanding

Antonyms

• everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usual

Derived terms

• extraordinary optical transmission
• extraordinary professor
• extraordinary rendition

Translations

Noun

extraordinary (plural extraordinaries)

1. Anything that goes beyond what is ordinary.
   • 1787, The New Annual Register

     […] the sum that will probably be wanted for each head of service during the year: it is divided into the ordinary, and the extraordinaries.

English

Etymology

compound +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?pa?nd?(?)/

Noun

compounder (plural compounders)

1. A person who compounds (mixes ingredients, and tests the result)

   a compounder of medicines

2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     Compounders in politics.

3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.

   • Religious houses made compounders / For the horrid actions of their founders.

4. (Britain, archaic) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
   • 1691–92, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Athenæ Oxonienses

     The first of these two was a compounder, the other who was an accumulator, was lately made provost of Trin. coll. near Dublin, and on the 31st of March 1692 was nominated bish. of Kilmore.

5. (Britain, historical) A Jacobite who favoured the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm.

Derived terms

• noncompounder

Anagrams

• recompound