wonderful

A1 Topic:Emotions & Feelings

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

Freq #675

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

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Derived forms wonderfullywonderfulness

Related forms excellent surprising wonder wonderfullywonderlandwonderment wondrous

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
- Emotions & Feelings

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