# wonderful

Pronunciation: US say "WUN-dur-ful" /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/; UK say "WUN-duh-ful" /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/

## Adjective

1. Extremely good, admirable, or impressive, often to a surprising degree.
   - Simple: Very good in a way that makes you happy or impressed.
   - _She gave a wonderful performance that left the audience speechless._
   - _They got wonderful news about the adoption this morning._

## Adverb

3. To a great degree; exceedingly, used in some dialects to strengthen another word. *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: Very or extremely, used to make another word stronger.
   - _The fresh bread smelled wonderful good as it cooled on the rack._
   - _"Wear your boots, because the path down to the creek is wonderful muddy after all that rain," her uncle warned._

## Adjective

2. Causing a feeling of wonder; remarkably surprising or extraordinary. *(dated)*
   - Simple: So strange or amazing that it fills you with wonder.
   - _The explorers described wonderful creatures no one had ever seen._
   - _Old maps marked the edges of the world with wonderful beasts._

## Origin

From Middle English wonderful, from Old English wundorful, going back to Proto-West Germanic *wundrafull; it is simply wonder plus the suffix -ful. It is related to Dutch wondervol and German wundervoll.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wonderful (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).