different between wonderful vs unbelievable
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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- 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
unbelievable
English
Etymology
From un- +? believable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nb??li?v?bl?/
Adjective
unbelievable (comparative more unbelievable, superlative most unbelievable)
- Not to be believed.
- Incredible; so surprising it is almost unable to believe.
- The most unbelievable thing happened to me today!
- This restaurant makes unbelievable pizza!
- Implausible or improbable.
- His excuse seems rather unbelievable.
- Synonyms: improbable, infeasible, unlikely
- Antonyms: feasible, likely, plausible, probable
Derived terms
- unbelievably
Translations
unbelievable From the web:
- what unbelievable mean
- what's unbelievable about on netflix
- what's unbelievable based on
- what unbelievable means in french
- what unbelievable facts
- unbelievable meaning in hindi
- unbelievable what was on the hard drive
- unbelievable what happens
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