Wonderful

//ˈwʌn.də.fl̩// adj, adv

adj, adv ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

    "His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural."

  2. 2
    Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

    "They served a wonderful six-course meal."

Adjective
  1. 1
    extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Exceedingly, to a great extent. dialectal, not-comparable

    "[…] wherein they were no sooner entered, but they saw that it was wonderful dark, and it seemed unto them that it should be a very large hall, and there they heard very fearful howlings, as though there had been a legion of hell-hounds […]"

Synonyms

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fantasticawesomebasedgreatmagnificentphenomenal

Example

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"As long as you stick to one style, you can't hit upon a wonderful idea."

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”). Compare Old English wuldorfull (“glorious”).

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