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wonderly

wonderly adjective: wondrous; wondersome.

Adjective

wonderly (comparative more wonderly, superlative most wonderly)

  1. (archaic) wondrous; wondersome
    • The king sent his hunters over, they should see, what kind of animal was set in the tree, they came back and said: there lay such a wonderly animal therein, as they hade ^([sic]) never seen in their life days, raw work of all kinds were on its skin, but it lay and slept.1812, 2014, Oliver Loo, The Original Grimm KHM 1812, page 330

Adverb

wonderly (comparative more wonderly, superlative most wonderly)

  1. (archaic) Wonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
  2. (archaic) To a wonderful degree, exceedingly.

Proper noun capitalized: Wonderly

Wonderly (plural Wonderlys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of wonderly

Adjective
comparativemore wonderly
superlativemost wonderly
Adverb
comparativemore wonderly
superlativemost wonderly
Proper noun
pluralWonderlys

Origin of wonderly

From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderlich, from Old English wundorlīċ (“wonderful, miraculous”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundralīk, from Proto-Germanic *wundralīkaz, equivalent to wonder + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wunderelk, wunnerelk, West Frisian wûnderlik, Dutch wonderlijk, German Low German wunnerlik, German wunderlich, Swedish underlig, Icelandic undarlegur.

From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderliche, from Old English wundorlīċe, equivalent to wonder + -ly.

Questions about wonderly

What does wonderly mean?
Wonderly means wondrous; wondersome.
What part of speech is wonderly?
Wonderly can be an adjective, an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near wonderly in the dictionary

  1. wonderlands
  2. wonderless
  3. wonderlessness
  4. Wonderlocke
  5. Wonderlockes
  6. wonderly
  7. Wonderlys
  8. wonderment
  9. wonderments
  10. wondermonger
  11. wondermongering

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