wonderful

English Online Dictionary. What means wonderful‎? What does wonderful mean?

English

Alternative forms

• wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete), 1drfl (internet slang)

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/

Adjective

wonderful (comparative wonderfuller or wonderfuler or more wonderful, superlative wonderfullest or wonderfulest or most wonderful)

1. Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Margaret Oliphant to this entry?)

   His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.
2. Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

Synonyms

• (excellent, extremely impressive): great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint
• See also Thesaurus:wonderful
• See also Thesaurus:excellent

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “excellent, extremely impressive”): terrible, horrible

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

wonderful (not comparable)

1. (dialect) Exceedingly, to a great extent.

Related terms

• women are wonderful effect
• wonder
• wonderfully
• wonderland
• wonderment
• wondrous

Anagrams

• underflow, wondreful