wonderful
UK/ˈwʌndəfl̩//ˈwʌndɚfl̩/
wonderful adjective: tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
Adjective
wonderful (comparative wonderfuller or wonderfuler or more wonderful, superlative wonderfullest or wonderfulest or most wonderful)
- 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.]
- Synonyms:
- wondrous, amazing, astonishing, marvelous, awesome, astounding, awe-inspiring, awful, sensational, awesomesauce
- Antonyms:
- unsurprising, unremarkable, common
- 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.
Adverb
wonderful (not comparable)
- 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 […]1808, Richard Johnson, The famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendome, page 267
- 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 […]1926, Eric Rücker Eddison, Styrbiorn the Strong, page 196
- Synonyms:
- wonderfully, wondrously
wonderful meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
wonderful in Hindi
- excellent, extremely impressive
- अद्भुत adbhut, कमाल kamāl
wonderful in Tamil
- விந்தையான
wonderful in Marathi
- अद्भुत
wonderful in Urdu
- wonderful, astonishing, amazing, miraculous
- عجب 'ajab
- wonderful
- بدیع badīʻ
More languagesFewer languages
- wonderful in Bengali
- চিত্র citro, আজব ajob, তাজ্জব tajjob
- wonderful in Telugu
- చోద్యము cōdyamu
- wonderful in Malayalam
- വിസ്മയകര, അദ്ഭുതകരമായ, ആശ്ചര്യകരമായ
- wonderful in Kannada
- ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯಕರ, ಅದ್ಭುತ, ಸೋಜಿಗದ, ವಿಸ್ಮಯಕಾರಿಯಾದ
- wonderful in Punjabi
- ਅਜਬ ajab
- wonderful in Assamese
- তাজ্জব tazzobo
- wonderful in Nepali
- अद्भुत
- wonderful in Arabic
- عَجِيب ʕajīb
- wonderful in Persian
- شگفت šegaft, شگرف šegarf
Examples of wonderful in a sentence
- '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; […]1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 278:
Synonyms of wonderful
- wondrous
- amazing
- astonishing
- marvelous
- awesome
- astounding
- awe-inspiring
- sensational
- awesomesauce
- based
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Antonyms
10 more antonymsFewer antonyms
Forms of wonderful
| comparative | wonderfuller |
|---|---|
| comparative | wonderfuler |
| comparative | more wonderful |
| superlative | wonderfullest |
| superlative | wonderfulest |
| superlative | most wonderful |
| alternative form | wonderfool |
| alternative form | woonderful |
| alternative form | wonderfull |
| alternative form | wondreful |
| alternative form | wondrefull |
| alternative form | 1drfl |
Origin of wonderful
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”).
Words formed from wonderful
Questions about wonderful
- What does wonderful mean?
- Wonderful means tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
- What is wonderful in Hindi?
- Wonderful in Hindi is अद्भुत (adbhut), कमाल (kamāl). See Wonderful meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use wonderful in a sentence?
- '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; […]
- What part of speech is wonderful?
- Wonderful can be an adjective or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce wonderful?
- Wonderful is pronounced /ˈwʌndəfl̩/ (UK).
Words near wonderful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wonderful (page history and authors); wonderful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wonderful (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); بدیع (Urdu) (page history and authors); আজব (Bengali) (page history and authors); చోద్యము (Telugu) (page history and authors); wonderful (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wonderful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅਜਬ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); তাজ্জব (Assamese) (page history and authors); wonderful (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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