wonderful

[ wuhn-der-fuhl ]

/ ˈwʌn dər fəl /

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adjective

excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.

of a sort that causes or arouses wonder; amazing; astonishing: The storm was wonderful to behold.

Origin of wonderful

before 1100; Middle English; Old English wundorful (see wonder, -ful); cognate with German wundervoll

SYNONYMS FOR wonderful

1 awesome, wondrous, miraculous, prodigious, astonishing, amazing, astounding, phenomenal, unique, curious, strange.

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OTHER WORDS FROM wonderful

won·der·ful·ly, adverb won·der·ful·ness, noun un·won·der·ful, adjective un·won·der·ful·ly, adverb

Words nearby wonderful

wonder child, wonder drug, wonder-stricken, wonder-worker, wonderberry, wonderful, wondering, wonderkid, wonderland, wonderment, wonders will never cease

Example sentences from the Web for wonderfully

Los Angeles was wonderfully exotic; a polyglot mix of Aztec, Incan, Mayan and New World scents and sounds.

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And that, in the end, is why this great raucous, raunchy, wonderfully readable novel is, really, quite unforgettable.

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He shimmies, he shakes, he waves his arms, his eyes bug out of his head—all in the service of some wonderfully breezy pop ditties.

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Willa is a wonderfully smart and funny and perceptive and engaging little kid.

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But his Dulcinea had wrought most wonderfully on his imagination.

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"The viscount said you were wonderfully well read in such matters," de Lisle said.

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The river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, and the valley of the Nile are wonderfully rich in historic material.

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It has a wonderfully drawing power to one who has once seen it.

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The girls were wonderfully well—great hearty, overgrown creatures!

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British Dictionary definitions for wonderfully

wonderful

/ (ˈwʌndəfʊl) /

adjective

exciting a feeling of wonder; marvellous or strange

extremely fine; excellent

Derived forms of wonderful

wonderfully, adverb wonderfulness, noun

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wonderful

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