Also what is the difference between wonderous and wonderful..are they interchangeable?
2007-03-19 00:27:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
So you can't have a barbarous person..am I reading you correctly?
What about wonderous and wonderful?
2007-03-19 08:32:24 · update #1
Barbarous and barbaric are one and the same (synonyms). There is no difference in their usage. So, you can say:
Modern whaling techniques are barbarous
or
Modern whaling techniques are barbaric
Colloquially speaking, however, people tend to use barbarous to describe people and barbaric to describe acts. But this is just a collocation and not a rule.
Exactly the same applies to wondrous/wonderful; they are, to all intents and purposes, synonyms (and hence interchangeable), with perhaps the odd colloquial distinction.
2007-03-19 19:12:01 · answer #1 · answered by Stealthbong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a barbaric horde/ a barbarous manner/
a barbarous hairdresser in using barbaric methods in serving ladies, which after have to face their honeys!
ciao...john-john.-
2007-03-19 07:33:48 · answer #2 · answered by John-John 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I must visit a barberous my hair is growing over my ears and I look barbaric.
2007-03-19 00:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
her remarks were very barbarous.(sharp & witty to the extent of been cruel)... but his reaction was barbaric..(smacked her over the head with a hammer!)...
2007-03-19 01:15:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋