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WONDERFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wonderful mean?
• WONDERFUL (adjective)
The adjective WONDERFUL has 1 sense:
1. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
Familiarity information: WONDERFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
Synonyms:
fantastic; grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous
Context example:
a tremendous achievement
Similar:
extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)
Derivation:
wonderfulness (admirable excellence)
Context examples
This can be a wonderful month where all the news that occurs comes from within you, rather than from the outside.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was indeed a wonderful place.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dora told me, shortly afterwards, that she was going to be a wonderful housekeeper.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Am I really wonderful?" asked the Scarecrow.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The reason of this assertion was, that he had now in his possession a certain wonderful Yahoo (meaning myself) which most of them had heard of, and many of them had seen.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
You are—I don't know what you are—you are wonderful, that's all.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It is wonderful what a good night's sleep will do for one.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
For the first time I knew the wonderful truth of his words. Why, I was living them.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A question about whether an individual has or had been living a wonderful adventure.
(Has Living Been a Wonderful Adventure, NCI Thesaurus)
Geriatric Depression Scale, Short Form (GDS-SF) Do you think it is wonderful to be alive now?
(GDS-SF - Think Wonderful to Be Alive, NCI Thesaurus)
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