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wonderful

adjective US /ˈwʌndərfəl/

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

  1. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers also: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling a fantastic trip to the Orientthe film was fantastic!

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

wonderful in real books

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  • And it's wonderful what wisdom the boys show.

    The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1

  • I talked of my wonderful father, and Great Will, and Pitt, and the Peerage.

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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