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wonderful
What does wonderful mean?
wonderful (adjective): extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use wonderful in a sentence?
- They served a wonderful six-course meal. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce wonderful?
/ˈwʌndɚfl̩/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does wonderful come from?
From Middle English wonderful, wondirful, from Old English wundorful (“wonderful”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundrafull, equivalent to wonder + -ful.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of wonderful?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “wonderful” mean?
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
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of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
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younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
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lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on
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different
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available
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fantastic
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important
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