* wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete)

From Middle English, from Old English _wundorful_ (“wonderful”), equivalent to _wonder_ +‎ _-ful_. Cognate Dutch _wondervol_ (“wonderful”), German _wundervoll_ (“wonderful”).

* (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwʌn.də(ɹ).fl̩/ * (US) IPA(key): /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/

WONDERFUL (_comparative_ WONDERFULLER _or_ MORE WONDERFUL, _superlative_ WONDERFULLEST _or_ MOST WONDERFUL) * (now rare) Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary. * 1992, Hilary Mantel, _A Place of Greater Safety_, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278: He is massively corrupt. It is WONDERFUL how the man's popularity survives. * Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive. _They served a WONDERFUL six-course meal._ SYNONYMS * (excellent, extremely impressive): great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint * See also Wikisaurus:wonderful * See also Wikisaurus:excellent ANTONYMS * (excellent, extremely impressive): terrible, horrible TRANSLATIONS RELATED TERMS * wonder * wonderfully * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous

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