wonderful

1. 1

   Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

   • His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.
   • It is not wonderful that Mrs Smith declined to visit the beer garden, in view of her militant temperance. [=It is no wonder that she declined.]
2. 2

   Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

   • They served a wonderful six-course meal.
   • What appears to be wonderful may turn out to be anything but.

syn. awesome · based · beat · beatific · bewildering · blissful · celestial · delightful · divine · enchanting · extraordinary · fabulous

ant. awful · boring · common · disgusting · dull · horrible · insignificant · lusterless

1. 1

   Exceedingly, to a great extent.dialectalnot-comparable

   • […] wherein they were no sooner entered, but they saw that it was wonderful dark, and it seemed unto them that it should be a very large hall, and there they heard very fearful howlings, as though there had been a legion of hell-hounds […]
   • It was wonderful stormy weather that night, and it so befell that there was sailing by the Jutland coast a little north of the east mouth of the Limfirth a man of Iceland bound south […]