Wonderful

/ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/ · adjective

Meaning

Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary..

Definitions by Sense

1. Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
2. Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
3. (dialect) Exceedingly, to a great extent.

Example Sentences

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.]

'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; […]

The difference in the circumstances of the kingdom at the two dates might fairly account for the change of policy in regard to the Solway. In 1563 the two countries were held by distinct and hostile governments, and it was not wonderful that the debateable ground of the Solway should be exempted from restrictions which could not be enforced over its whole surface, and which, if enforced on the Scotch side only, would be certainly broken through by the English marauders. In 1685, however, both kingdoms were ruled over by one sovereign; a more amicable policy had, since the accession of James I., been adopted in legislation; and it might therefore be supposed that the exception in favour of the Solway had lapsed by implication, and that the fisheries of all parts of the kingdom were thenceforward to be governed by uniform statutory regulations.

He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.

They served a wonderful six-course meal.

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

Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.

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Word Forms

• wonderfuller
• wonderfuler
• more wonderful
• wonderfullest
• wonderfulest
• most wonderful
• wonderfool
• woonderful
• wonderfull
• wondreful
• wondrefull
• 1drfl

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