Is great a wow word

Egypt

Words Of Wonders — Giza pyramid

Words Of Wonders — Great sphinx

Words Of Wonders — Red sea

France

Words Of Wonders — Eiffel tower

Words Of Wonders — Notre-dame de paris

Words Of Wonders — The louvre
Words Of Wonders — Arc de triomphe
Words Of Wonders — Mont blanc
Chile
Words Of Wonders — El tatio
Words Of Wonders — Atacama desert
Words Of Wonders — Ahu tongariki
Words Of Wonders — Petrohue waterfalls
Words Of Wonders — General carrera lake
Spain
Words Of Wonders — Sagrada familia
Words Of Wonders — Palau nacional
Words Of Wonders — Aqueduct of segovia
Words Of Wonders — Royal palace of madrid
Words Of Wonders — Plaza de cibeles
Turkey
Words Of Wonders — Basilica cistern
Words Of Wonders — Pamukkale
Words Of Wonders — Ephesus
Words Of Wonders — Cappadocia
Words Of Wonders — Mount nemrut
Japan
Words Of Wonders — Kiyomizu-dera
Words Of Wonders — Fushimi inari-taisha
Words Of Wonders — Osaka castle
Words Of Wonders — Itsukushima shrine
Words Of Wonders — Arashiyama
Russia
Words Of Wonders — Hermitage museum
Words Of Wonders — Palace square
Words Of Wonders — Red square
Words Of Wonders — Saint basil’s cathedral
Words Of Wonders — Bolshoi theatre
Norway
Words Of Wonders — Urnes stave church
Words Of Wonders — Geirangerfjord
Words Of Wonders — Vigeland sculpture park
Words Of Wonders — Bryggen
Words Of Wonders — Trolltunga
Germany
Words Of Wonders — Brandenburg gate
Words Of Wonders — Saxon switzerland national park
Words Of Wonders — Cologne cathedral
Words Of Wonders — Neuschwanstein castle
Words Of Wonders — Partnach gorge
Italy
Words Of Wonders — Milan cathedral
Words Of Wonders — Grand canal
Words Of Wonders — Leaning tower of pisa
Words Of Wonders — Colosseum
Words Of Wonders — Trevi fountain
China
Words Of Wonders — Great wall of china
Words Of Wonders — Terracotta army
Words Of Wonders — Longmen grottoes
Words Of Wonders — Giant wild goose pagoda
Words Of Wonders — Zhangjiajie national forest park
India
Words Of Wonders — Golden temple
Words Of Wonders — Ganges
Words Of Wonders — Hawa mahal
Words Of Wonders — Taj mahal
Words Of Wonders — Meenakshi amman temple
Brazil
Words Of Wonders — Lençóis maranhenses national park
Words Of Wonders — Meeting of waters
Words Of Wonders — Chapada dos veadeiros national park
Words Of Wonders — Christ the redeemer
Words Of Wonders — Escadaria selarón
Usa
Words Of Wonders — Statue of liberty
Words Of Wonders — Golden gate bridge
Words Of Wonders — Yellowstone national park
Words Of Wonders — Las vegas strip
Words Of Wonders — Grand canyon national park
Greece
Words Of Wonders — Meteora
Words Of Wonders — Temple of olympian zeus
Words Of Wonders — Erechtheion
Words Of Wonders — Ionian islands
Words Of Wonders — Palace of the knights of rhodes
South africa
Words Of Wonders — Kruger national park
Words Of Wonders — Blyde river canyon
Words Of Wonders — Cradle of humankind
Words Of Wonders — Kirstenbosch national botanical garden
Words Of Wonders — Cango caves
Sweden
Words Of Wonders — Icehotel
Words Of Wonders — Vasa
Words Of Wonders — Kalmar castle
Words Of Wonders — Oresund bridge
Words Of Wonders — Turning torso
Australia
Words Of Wonders — Great barrier reef
Words Of Wonders — Three sisters
Words Of Wonders — Sydney opera house
Words Of Wonders — Grampians national park
Words Of Wonders — Sydney tower
South korea
Words Of Wonders — Gyeongbokgung
Words Of Wonders — N seoul tower
Words Of Wonders — Namiseom
Words Of Wonders — Naejangsan national park
Words Of Wonders — Haedong yonggungsa
Taiwan
Words Of Wonders — Sun moon lake
Words Of Wonders — Yehliu
Words Of Wonders — Shifen waterfall
Words Of Wonders — Taiwan confucian temple
Words Of Wonders — Kaohsiung
Switzerland
Words Of Wonders — Grossmünster
Words Of Wonders — Kapellbrücke
Words Of Wonders — Zytglogge
Words Of Wonders — Lake geneva
Words Of Wonders — Matterhorn
Portugal
Words Of Wonders — Clérigos church
Words Of Wonders — Conímbriga
Words Of Wonders — Batalha monastery
Words Of Wonders — Belém tower
Words Of Wonders — Carmo convent
Poland
Words Of Wonders — Słowiński national park
Words Of Wonders — Malbork castle
Words Of Wonders — Białowieża forest
Words Of Wonders — Jasna góra monastery
Words Of Wonders — Niedzica castle
Argentina
Words Of Wonders — Iberá wetlands
Words Of Wonders — Talampaya national park
Words Of Wonders — La boca
Words Of Wonders — Buenos aires metropolitan cathedral
Words Of Wonders — Perito moreno glacier
Malta
Words Of Wonders — Azure window
Words Of Wonders — St.john’s co-cathedral
Words Of Wonders — Popeye village
Words Of Wonders — Fort saint elmo
Words Of Wonders — Mnajdra
Mexico
Words Of Wonders — Tulum
Words Of Wonders — El castillo
Words Of Wonders — Sian ka’an
Words Of Wonders — Agua azul waterfalls
Words Of Wonders — Islas marietas national park
England
Words Of Wonders — Big ben
Words Of Wonders — Stonehenge
Words Of Wonders — Hyde park
Words Of Wonders — Tower of london
Words Of Wonders — Windsor castle

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that the “word” most commonly said in our language is “uh” (or “um” or “erm” or “er” or however the particular person pronounces it). If you were to read a dialogue exchange between two people talking off the tops of their heads, you would begin to feel overwhelmed by the number of times “uh” shows up—because it’s the filler we use when we have to give our brains a moment to catch up with our mouths to supply us with the proper words or thoughts.

Also, when we speak, we have a tendency to start all of our sentences/responses the same way:
“Well, did he do it?”
“Well, that’s great.”
“Well, I don’t think so.”
“Oh, I’ve been meaning to call you.”
“Oh, do you really think so?”
“Oh, what now?”
“So did he?”
“So what are you going to do?”
“So we went to the cafe for lunch.”

We don’t notice we’re doing it when we’re speaking because we don’t necessarily log all of the actual words that we hear—we log the meanings of the words we hear, and since those little syllables at the beginning don’t add to the meaning of the sentence, we are pretty well able to filter them out—kind of like we don’t actually “hear” the humming sound the computer makes when we’re using it nor the hum of the refrigerator. They’re words that become white noise to us.

But when we see them in writing like above—or like in two manuscripts I’ve edited recently—not only do they become obvious, they become glaringly obvious.

In a young-adult manuscript I read recently, all of the characters managed to say “wow” about something multiple times each—whether it was the teenaged kids or the parents.

“Wow! This is going to be a great night!”
“Wow! That was so great!”
“Wow! Mom, dinner smells great!”
“Wow! Jane, you look great!”

(And yes, I had to annihilate tons of exclamation points as well!) After the first or second instance of wow it looses its wow-factor. And with everything described as great, the adjective loses a lot of its greatness.

So as you work on your assignment for tomorrow (yikes! I’d better get cracking on that myself!), be sure to note any repetitive white-noise words that are used in the “live” chatter and whether or not they’re used in the scripted dialogue you choose to transcribe.

In Self-Editing for the Fiction Writer, Browne & King quote an acquisitions editor as saying, “The first thing I do is find a scene with some dialogue. If the dialogue doesn’t work, the manuscript gets bounced. If it’s good, I start reading.”

As someone who’s done acquisitions for a publishing house in the past, I can tell you that dialogue is one thing that can make or break a manuscript. Characters either come alive or are shown to be nothing more than cardboard cutouts through dialogue—or puppets who are there merely to disseminate information that the author can’t figure out how to share through narrative. Dialogue has to be intriguing. It has to make the reader curious or tense or amused. Dialogue filled with these white-noise words isn’t going to do that.

In How to Grow a Novel, Sol Stein wrote: “At its best, [dialogue] has a liveliness that makes the words seem to jump from the page straight into our bloodstream like adrenaline. . . . Dialogue involves oblique responses as often as possible. Non-sequiturs, words that don’t follow from what came before, are bothersome in talk, but add flavor in dialogue. . . . The minute characters talk, the reader sees them. And we know readers much prefer seeing what’s happening rather than hearing about it through narration” (91).

I’m going to show my fading brain-skills here, because I can’t remember exactly who said this, but at the ACFW conference two weeks ago, someone gave the example of thinking of our novels like a movie or stage play. If a character is just sitting around thinking, it’s going to get really boring on that screen/stage pretty quickly. That’s why dialogue, especially in the opening scenes of a novel, is vital. Dialogue is active—and interactive. As Stein wrote, “The aim of dialogue is to create an emotional effect in the reader” (94).

Wow. Great. Really? Um, yeah. So are we, uh, well, are we done with this post?

большой, отличный, великий, замечательно, вельможи

прилагательное ↓

существительное ↓

Словосочетания

all creatures great and small — все твари, большие и малые (люди и животные)  
a great quantity of fish — большое количество рыбы  
an actress of great charm — актриса огромного обаяния / очень обаятельная актриса  
a young person of great wisdom — молодой человек великой мудрости  
the great bulk of a building — огромная масса здания  
a man of great moral integrity — человек высоких моральных качеств  
a woman of great wit and charm — женщина большого остроумия и обаяния  
the great brains of the world — великие умы человечества  
great bulk — огромное большинство  
mind of great capacity — всеобъемлющий ум  
extreme / great caution — крайняя осторожность  
drastic / great change — большие перемены  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

greater  — большой, вящий
greatly  — значительно, очень, весьма, возвышенно, благородно
greatness  — величие, величина, сила
greats  — вельможи, сильные мира сего, великие писатели, классики, богачи
greatest  — величайший
greaten  — увеличивать, увеличиваться

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): great
мн. ч.(plural): greats

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): greater
прев. степ. (superlative): greatest