Wonderful
/ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/ adj, adv
adj, adv ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
"His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural."
- 2 Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
"They served a wonderful six-course meal."
Adjective
- 1 extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers wordnet
Adverb
- 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 […]"
Example
More examples"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”).