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weird and wonderful en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɪə(ɹ)d ən ˈwʌndə(ɹ)fəl/
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Meanings

  1. Delightfully unusual.
    • In this supremo of weird and wonderful, astonishing and inexplicable facts, figures, stats and stories returns with a bumper selection of trivialistic treats - each one more remarkable and, yes, even more trivial than anything he's compiled before. 2012, Mitchell Symons, The Bumper Book For The Loo, page 721:
    • Daihatsu Hi-Jet is weird and wonderfool [sic] 2008 October 18, Quentin Wilson, The Mirror:
    • What kept Zoe’s dad going was making brand new ice-cream flavours. At the end of every shift at the factory he would rush home excitedly, laden with samples of some weird and wonderful new flavour for Zoe to be the first to try. 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

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most weird and wonderful Degree=Sup lexicographic
more weird and wonderful Degree=Cmp lexicographic