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wonderful
English
Alternative forms
- wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete), 1drfl (internet slang)
Etymology
From Middle English wonderful, wondirful, from Old English wundorful (“wonderful”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundrafull, equivalent to wonder +? -ful. Cognate Dutch wondervol (“wonderful”), German wundervoll (“wonderful”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?n.d?.fl/
- (US) IPA(key): /?w?n.d?.fl?/
- Rhymes: blunderful
Adjective
wonderful (comparative wonderfuller or wonderfuler or more wonderful, superlative wonderfullest or wonderfulest or most wonderful)
- 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.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:
- Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
- They served a wonderful six-course meal.
Synonyms
- (excellent, extremely impressive): great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint
- See also Thesaurus:wonderful
- See also Thesaurus:excellent
Antonyms
- (excellent, extremely impressive): terrible, horrible
Translations
Adverb
wonderful (not comparable)
- (dialect) Exceedingly, to a great extent.
Related terms
- women are wonderful effect
- wonder
- wonderfully
- wonderland
- wonderment
- wondrous
Anagrams
- underflow, wondreful
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capable
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French capable, from Late Latin cap?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ke?p?bl?/
Adjective
capable (comparative more capable, superlative most capable)
- Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
- (obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:skillful
Antonyms
- incapable
Derived terms
- capability (noun)
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “capable”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- pacable
French
Etymology
From Latin capabilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pabl/
Adjective
capable (plural capables)
- able, capable
See also
- cap'
Further reading
- “capable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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