wonderful

A1 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/ UK /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/ See IPA manual

Freq #675

Meanings

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adj
Extremely good; making you feel very happy or pleased.

They served a wonderful six-course meal.

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Synonyms

1 adj · extremely good; making you... amazing awesome marvellous fantastic

More based beat beatific bewildering blissful celestial delightful divine enchanting extraordinary fabulous

Opposites

boring common disgusting dull horrible insignificant lusterless monotonous mundane tedious terrible unimpressive

Word family

Derived forms wonderfullywonderfulness

Related forms excellent surprising wonder wonderfullywonderlandwonderment wondrous

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Phrases (1)

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wonderful soup
Soup that gives great pleasure, especially because of its taste.

Adjective + noun

Idioms (1)

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weird and wonderful
strange and unusual but in an interesting or impressive way

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”).

wonderful Middle English wundorful Old English *wundrafull Proto-West Germanic

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# wonderful

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/
**Frequency rank:** 675

## Meanings
1. Extremely good; making you feel very happy or pleased.

## Examples
- They served a wonderful six-course meal.

## Synonyms
- awesome
- based
- beat
- beatific
- bewildering
- blissful
- celestial
- delightful
- divine
- enchanting
- extraordinary
- fabulous

## Antonyms
- boring
- common
- disgusting
- dull
- horrible
- insignificant
- lusterless
- monotonous
- mundane
- tedious
- terrible
- unimpressive

## Derived Forms
- wonderfully
- wonderfulness

## Related Forms
- excellent
- surprising
- wonder
- wonderfully
- wonderland
- wonderment
- wondrous

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: wonderful
- Root: wundorful
- Root: *wundrafull
- Affix: -ful - full of

## 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”).

## AI Etymology
Wonderful is 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”). Important historical forms include Middle English wonderful, Old English wundorful, and Proto-West Germanic *wundrafull. In present-day use, it means extremely good; making you feel very happy or pleased. Derived formations include wonderfully, wonderfulness.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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