wonderful

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈwʌn.də.fl/
• (America) IPA: /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/

Adjective

wonderful (comparative wonderfuller, superlative wonderfullest)

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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• (excellent, extremely impressive) terrible, horrible

Translations

• French: merveilleux
• German: wunderbar, wundervoll
• Italian: meraviglioso
• Portuguese: maravilhoso
• Russian: замеча́тельный
• Spanish: maravilloso, estupendo

Adverb

wonderful (not comparable)

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

Related terms

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

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