wonderfully


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won·der·ful

 (wŭn′dər-fəl)
adj.
1. Admirable or very good; excellent or splendid: what a wonderful person she is; had a wonderful time at the party.
2. Capable of eliciting wonder; astonishing: "The ... whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world" (Charles Darwin).

won′der·ful·ly adv.
won′der·ful·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.wonderfully - (used as an intensifier) extremely wellwonderfully - (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"
intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
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Translations
بصورةٍ رائِعَه
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frábærlega
čudovito
ljuvligtunderbart
olağanüstü şekilde

wonderfully

[ˈwʌndəfəlɪ] ADJ
1. (= extremely) she was always wonderfully kind to mesiempre fue amabilísima conmigo
it's a wonderfully funny playes una obra increíblemente divertida, es una obra divertidísima
he looks wonderfully wellestá de maravilla, tiene un aspecto estupendo
2. (= very well) [sleep, adapt, work] → de maravilla
the doctor says she is doing wonderfullyel médico dice que se está recuperando de maravilla or estupendamente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wonderfully

[ˈwʌndərfʊli] adv
[kind, funny, happy, versatile, relaxed] → merveilleusement; [rich] → prodigieusement
wonderfully well → merveilleusement bien
It went wonderfully well → Cela s'est merveilleusement bien passé.
[work, cope, fight, perform, write] → merveilleusementwonder girl nenfant f prodige
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wonderfully

advwunderbar; he looks wonderfully weller sieht wunderbar aus
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wonderfully

[ˈwʌndəflɪ] adv (with adjective) → meravigliosamente; (with verb) → a meraviglia
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wonder

(ˈwandə) noun
1. the state of mind produced by something unexpected or extraordinary. He was full of wonder at the amazing sight.
2. something strange, unexpected or extraordinary. the Seven Wonders of the World; You work late so often that it's a wonder you don't take a bed to the office!
3. the quality of being strange or unexpected. The wonder of the discovery is that it was only made ten years ago.
verb
1. to be surprised. Caroline is very fond of John – I shouldn't wonder if she married him.
2. to feel curiosity or doubt. Have you ever wondered about his reasons for wanting this money?
3. to feel a desire to know. I wonder what the news is.
ˈwonderful adjective
arousing wonder; extraordinary, especially in excellence. a wonderful opportunity; a wonderful present; She's a wonderful person.
ˈwonderfully adverb
ˈwonderingly adverb
with great curiosity and amazement. The children gazed wonderingly at the puppets.
ˈwonderland (-lӕnd) noun
a land or place full of wonderful things.
ˈwondrous (ˈwandrəs) adjective
wonderful.
no wonder
it isn't surprising. No wonder you couldn't open the door – it was locked!
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References in classic literature ?
At twilight a wonderfully tremulous, wonderfully different Aunt Polly crept to Pollyanna's bedside.
It was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself, and to feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe, when he had got into his fortification, and pulled his ladder up after him.
In the beautiful, refreshing, still nights of spring, when the moon pours her silver light over the Country, the listening shipper hears from the rushing of the waves, the echoing Clang of a wonderfully charming voice, which sings a song from the crystal castle, and with sorrow and fear he thinks on the young Count Hermann, seduced by the Nymph."
At his first Appearance my Sensibility was wonderfully affected and e'er I had gazed at him a 2d time, an instinctive sympathy whispered to my Heart, that he was my Grandfather.
"I used to have a very poor opinion of him too, but he, he's an awfully nice and wonderfully good-hearted man.
These offending features gave character to her whole face, but she never could see it, and consoled herself with her wonderfully fair complexion, keen blue eyes, and curls more golden and abundant than ever.
"Yes, sir, she's wonderfully improved; she's not the same creature that she was; it's `the Birtwick balls', sir," said John, laughing.
The action of the whole thing is wonderfully good and true.
Grey-headed men, wonderfully pathetic in their dissipation, stared at her through clouds.
If navigation ever existed on the surface of the moon, it must have been wonderfully difficult and dangerous; and we may well pity the Selenite sailors and hydrographers; the former, when they came upon these perilous coasts, the latter when they took the soundings of its stormy banks.
The pet pupil of the Nuns' House is Miss Rosa Bud, of course called Rosebud; wonderfully pretty, wonderfully childish, wonderfully whimsical.
"Wonderfully, wonderfully different," she answered.