wonderful

1. 1
   excellentadjective

   Very good in a way that makes you happy or impressed.

   Like the happy feeling when everything goes just right.

   We had a wonderful time at the beach this weekend.

   The cake she baked tasted wonderful.

   UsageSay more wonderful; often a wonderful time.

   Similarexcellent, great, marvelous, superb, fantastic

   Oppositeterrible, awful, dreadful, horrible

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2. 2
   astonishingadjectivedated

   So strange or amazing that it fills you with wonder.

   The old story tells of a wonderful bird that could speak every language.

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

   1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

   Similarmarvelous, astonishing, extraordinary, amazing, remarkable

   Oppositeordinary, commonplace, unremarkable

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3. 3
   veryadverbdialectal

   Very or extremely, used to make another word stronger.

   The water was wonderful cold that morning.

   "I'm wonderful hungry," Grandpa said as he sat down to supper.

   UsagePut it before a describing word: wonderful cold means very cold.

   Similarwonderfully, wondrously

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