wonderful
extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
How often you will meet it
Rank 897 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 20,474 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers also: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling a fantastic trip to the Orientthe film was fantastic!
wonderful in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And it's wonderful what wisdom the boys show.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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I talked of my wonderful father, and Great Will, and Pitt, and the Peerage.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1
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She wore an extremely smart travelling-dress and a wonderful dust-cloak of cool, pale, thin silk.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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You, and the minor New-York papers, expect to devote most of your space to this wonderful undertaking.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Music was one of his foibles; he learnt an instrument with wonderful facility, and, up to a certain point, played well.
The Crown of Life · George Gissing · Chapter 1