wonderful

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

   His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.

2. 2
   adj

   Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

   They served a wonderful six-course meal.

3. 3
   adv

   Exceedingly, to a great extent.

   […] wherein they were no sooner entered, but they saw that it was wonderful dark, and it seemed unto them that it should be a very large hall, and there they heard very fearful howlings, as though there had been a legion of hell-hounds […]

4. 4
   adj

   extraordinarily good or great

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”).