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extraordinary
adjective as in strange and wonderful
Strongest matches
amazing, bizarre, curious, exceptional, fantastic, incredible, marvelous, odd, outstanding, particular, phenomenal, rare, remarkable, singular, special, strange, surprising, terrific, uncommon, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, unusual, weird
Weak matches
boss, fab, gnarly, heavy, inconceivable, off beaten path, out of the ordinary, peculiar, stupendous, unfamiliar, unthinkable, unwonted, wicked
Example Sentences
It’s the morning after the Dodgers won the World Series, and Schur — a baseball enthusiast with undying loyalty to the Boston Red Sox — is detailing the team’s extraordinary comeback in the fifth inning of Game 5 against the New York Yankees as a curious Ted Danson listens intently.
“All year we have celebrated fiction that inhabits ideas rather than declaiming on issues, not finding answers but changing the question of what we wanted to explore. Our unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and ambition. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share.”
“Kaleidoscope” is a far preferable and more colorful description of Aitken’s ambition here, which takes stunning, impressionistic and often dreamlike images of ordinary people moving through extraordinary California landscapes, and stirs them into seemingly improvised songs as well as familiar minimalist masterpieces by composers like Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley.
In their statement, Juliet, Samuel and Joseph West described their father as having had a "long and extraordinary life on and off the stage".
Trump scores a decisive victory over Harris, completing an extraordinary political comeback.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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