wonderful
adjEtymology
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”).
- inherited from *wundrafull✻
- inherited from wonderful
Definitions
Tending to excite wonder
Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
- His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.
- It is not wonderful that Mrs Smith declined to visit the beer garden, in view of her militant temperance. [=It is no wonder that she declined.]
- 'Ha!' cried Dangerfield, with a sort of gasp, and a violent smirk, the joyousness of which was, however, counteracted by a lurid scowl and a wonderful livid glare in his wild eyes; […]
Surprisingly excellent
Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
- They served a wonderful six-course meal.
- What appears to be wonderful may turn out to be anything but.
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 […]
- It was wonderful stormy weather that night, and it so befell that there was sailing by the Jutland coast a little north of the east mouth of the Limfirth a man of Iceland bound south […]
The neighborhood
- synonymawesome
- synonymbased
- synonymbeat
- synonymbeatific
- synonymbewildering
- synonymblissful
- synonymcelestial
- synonymdelightful
- synonymdivine
- synonymenchanting
- synonymextraordinary
- synonymfabulous
- antonymboring
- antonymcommon
- antonymdisgusting
- antonymdull
- antonymhorrible
- antonyminsignificant
- antonymlusterless
- antonymmonotonous
- antonymmundane
- antonymno wonder
- antonymsmall wonder
- antonymtedious
- neighborno wonder
- neighborsmall wonder
- neighborlittle wonder
- neighborwomen are wonderful effect
- neighborwonder
- neighborwonderfully
- neighborwonderland
- neighborwonderment
- neighborwondrous
- neighborexcellent
- neighborsurprising
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wonderful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wonderful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at wonderful
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA