different between wonderful vs famous
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
wonderful From the web:
- what wonderful world
- what wonderful world lyrics
- what wonderful things you will be
- what wonderful name it is
- what wonderful name it is lyrics
- what wonderful news
- what wonderful world louis armstrong
- what wonderful person was born in june
famous
English
Etymology
From Middle English famous, from Anglo-Norman famous, from Latin f?m?sus. Displaced native Old English hl?sful.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fe?m?s/
- Rhymes: -e?m?s
- UK: fam?ous; US: fa?mous
Adjective
famous (comparative more famous, superlative most famous)
- Well known.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:famous
- In the public eye.
Derived terms
- famousest
- famously
- famousness
- infamous
- infamously
- infamousness
- nonfamous
- nonfamousness
Related terms
- fame
- famous last words
Translations
Verb
famous (third-person singular simple present famouses, present participle famousing, simple past and past participle famoused)
- (transitive, obsolete) To make famous; to bring renown to.
famous From the web:
- what famous person died today
- what famous people died in 2020
- what famous person died this week
- what famous people were born today
- what famous person do i look like
- what famous people died today
- what famous actor died today
- what famous person just died 2020
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