wonderful

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UK /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/ US /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/

adj 2adv 1

Collocations

(adj.)

VERBS

be, feel, look, smell, sound, taste

ADV

most, really

absolutely, perfectly, quite, truly

The meal last night was truly wonderful, and we're already planning to go back next week.

pretty, rather

PHRASES

weird and wonderful

The museum displayed all sorts of weird and wonderful sculptures from around the world.

Definitions

adj

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.]

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

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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Synonyms

adjective — extraordinarily good or great

fantastic
grand
marvelous
marvellous
terrific
tremendous

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.

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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.]

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'Ha!' cried Dangerfield, with a sort of gasp, and a violent smirk, the joyousness of which was, however, counteracted by a lurid scowl and a wonderful livid glare in his wild eyes; […]

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

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