different between wonderful vs fab

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)

1. 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.

2. 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)

1. (dialect) Exceedingly, to a great extent.

Related terms

• women are wonderful effect
• wonder
• wonderfully
• wonderland
• wonderment
• wondrous

Anagrams

• underflow, wondreful

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

From fabulous, by shortening

Adjective

fab (comparative fabber, superlative fabbest)

1. (informal) fabulous (great or spectacular).

Derived terms

• fabby

Etymology 2

From fabricate and its derived terms, by shortening

Noun

fab (plural fabs)

1. A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.

   The chip fab will double its production next year.

Synonyms

• fabber
• foundry

Verb

fab (third-person singular simple present fabs, present participle fabbing, simple past and past participle fabbed)

1. To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers

   It uses digital data from a computer to “fab” products and models of new products. [1]

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Anagrams

• AFB, B.F.A., BAF, BFA

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fab/

Noun

fab (nominative plural fabs)

1. fable

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?b/

Noun

fab m

1. Soft mutation of mab.

Mutation