wonderful
Adjective Satellite
- extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
Adj
- Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
- Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
Adv
- Exceedingly, to a great extent.
Examples
- They served a wonderful six-course meal.
- What appears to be wonderful may turn out to be anything but.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wondrous, amazing, astonishing, awesome, based, beat, bewildering, enchanting, extraordinary, fabulous, fantabulosa, fantabulous, fascinating, finger-lickin' good, frabjous, grandeur, grandiose, great, impressive, incredible, inspiring, lovely jubbly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, major, mint, mirandous, mystifying, selly, splendid, stupefying, stupendous, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, unbelievable, wild
Antonyms
boring, common, disgusting, dull, horrible, insignificant, lusterless, monotonous, mundane, tedious, terrible, unimpressive, uninspiring, uninteresting
Scrabble Score: 16
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