wonderful

UK /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/ US /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/
adj 2adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.

It is not wonderful that Mrs Smith declined to visit the beer garden, in view of her militant temperance. [=It is no wonder that she declined.]

2

Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

They served a wonderful six-course meal.

What appears to be wonderful may turn out to be anything but.

adv

1

Exceedingly, to a great extent.

[…] 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 […]

It was wonderful stormy weather that night, and it so befell that there was sailing by the Jutland coast a little north of the east mouth of the Limfirth a man of Iceland bound south […]

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