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wonderful
- /ˈwʌndəfl̩/ UK
- /ˈwʌndɚfl̩/ Canada, US
- /ˈwɐndəfl̩/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈwʊndəfl̩/ Northern England
Where it comes from
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”).
adjective wonderfuller · wonderfuler · more wonderful · wonderfullest · wonderfulest · most wonderful
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Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.
Similar: wondrous, amazing, astonishing, marvelous, awesome, astounding, awe-inspiring, awful, sensational, awesomesauce, based, beatific · Opposite: unsurprising, unremarkable, common
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Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
They served a wonderful six-course meal.
Similar: great, amazing, marvelous, fantastic, awesome, terrific, ace, admirable, awe-inspiring, badass, broyal, bang on · Opposite: terrible, horrible, horrific
Similar: awesome, based, beat, beatific, bewildering, blissful, celestial, delightful, divine, enchanting, extraordinary, fabulous, fantabulosa, fantabulous, fascinating, finger-lickin' good, frabjous, grandeur, grandiose, grand, great, heavenlike, heavenly, impressive, inspiring, lovely jubbly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, major · Opposite: awful, boring, common, disgusting, dull, horrible, insignificant, lusterless, monotonous, mundane, no wonder, small wonder, tedious, terrible, unimpressive, uninspiring, uninteresting, unwonderful
adverb wonderfool · woonderful · wonderfull · wondreful · wondrefull · 1drfl
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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 […]
Similar: wonderfully, wondrously
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: marvelous, wondrous, tremendous, extraordinary, fantastic, rattling, terrific, howling, marvellous, marvel, phenomenal, spectacular, exquisite, magnificent, wonder, enormous
adjective
Similar: awesome, based, beat, beatific, bewildering, blissful, celestial, delightful, divine, enchanting, extraordinary, fabulous, fantabulosa, fantabulous, fascinating, finger-lickin' good, frabjous, grandeur, grandiose, grand, great, heavenlike, heavenly, impressive, inspiring, lovely jubbly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, major · Opposite: awful, boring, common, disgusting, dull, horrible, insignificant, lusterless, monotonous, mundane, no wonder, small wonder, tedious, terrible, unimpressive, uninspiring, uninteresting, unwonderful
Translations
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adj excellent, extremely impressive
| 한국어 | 놀라운 nollaun |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 素晴しい subarashii |
| 中文 | 棒 bàng, 奇妙 qímiào |
| हिन्दी | अद्भुत adbhut, कमाल kamāl |
| Português | maravilhoso |
| Français | merveilleux |
| Deutsch | wunderbar, wundervoll, eitel, hochtrabend, wichtigtuerisch |
| Italiano | meraviglioso, stupendo, fantastico, splendido, eccellente, impressionante |
| Ελληνικά | θαυμάσιος thavmásios, εκπληκτικός ekpliktikós, υπέροχος ypérochos, έξοχος éxochos, καταπληκτικός katapliktikós |
| Русский | замеча́тельный zamečátelʹnyj, чуде́сный čudésnyj, восхити́тельный vosxitítelʹnyj |
| العربية | عَجِيب ʕajīb |
| עברית | נפלא niflá |
Talk about this word "wonderful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/wonderful. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. wonderful. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/wonderful "wonderful." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/wonderful.Cite this
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title = {wonderful},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wonderful},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
