different between wonderful vs uncommon
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
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- what wonderful news
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- what wonderful person was born in june
uncommon
English
Etymology
un- +? common
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?k?m?n/
- Rhymes: -?m?n
Adjective
uncommon (comparative uncommoner, superlative uncommonest)
- Rare; not readily found; unusual.
- Remarkable; exceptional.
Synonyms
- (rare): infrequent, raresome, scarce; see also Thesaurus:rare
Translations
Adverb
uncommon (not comparable)
- (archaic, Britain, dialect) Exceedingly, exceptionally.
Related terms
- uncommonly
- uncommonness
uncommon From the web:
- what uncommon mean
- what uncommon relationship is described by the statements
- what uncommon dog breed are you
- what's uncommon james
- what's uncommon james worth
- what's uncommon knowledge
- what uncommon mean in arabic
- what's uncommon in german
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