Wonderful

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈwÊŒn.dÉ™(ɹ).flÌ©/
• US IPA: /ˈwÊŒn.dÉš.flÌ©/

Alternative forms

• wonderfool eye dialect, woonderful eye dialect, wonderfull archaic, wondreful obsolete, wondrefull obsolete

Origin

From Middle English, from Old English wundorful ("wonderful"), equivalent to wonder + -ful. Cognate Dutch wondervol ("wonderful"), German wundervoll ("wonderful").

Full definition of wonderful

Adjective

1. (now rare) Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
• 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.
2. Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.They served a wonderful six-course meal.
• 2012, April 29, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992), 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.

Synonyms

• (excellent, extremely impressive) great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint

Antonyms

• (excellent, extremely impressive) terrible, horrible

Related terms

• wonder
• wonderfully
• wonderland
• wonderment
• wondrous

Anagrams

• underflow