different between wonderful vs respectable
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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respectable
English
Etymology
respect +? -able
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): [?i.?sp?k.t?.bl?]
Adjective
respectable (comparative more respectable, superlative most respectable)
- Deserving respect.
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
- Decent; satisfactory.
- Moderately well-to-do.
Synonyms
- honorable
Antonyms
- contemptible
- despicable
- disrespectable
Related terms
- respectability
- respectabilize
- respectably
Translations
See also
- respectful
- respective
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /r?s.p?k?ta.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /res.pek?ta.ble/
Adjective
respectable (masculine and feminine plural respectables)
- respectable
Derived terms
- respectabilitat
Related terms
- respectar
Further reading
- “respectable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “respectable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “respectable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “respectable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
respect +? -able
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s.p?k.tabl/
- Homophone: respectables
- Hyphenation: res?pec?table
Adjective
respectable (plural respectables)
- respectable
Derived terms
- respectablement
Further reading
- “respectable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- respectábel
Adjective
respectable m or f (plural respectables)
- respectable
Derived terms
- respectabilidade
Related terms
- respectar
Further reading
- “respectable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
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