Dictionary

wonderfully en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/

Etymology

From Middle English wonderfully, wunderfullie, wonderfulliche, equivalent to wonderful + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a wonderful manner. ▸ In an excellent manner.
   • By freeing statisticians from dealing with complicated calculations, the statistical aspects of a problem can become the main focus. This point is wonderfully illustrated by Smith and Gelfand (1992). 1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174
   • We're so wonderfully, wonderfully / Wonderfully, wonderfully pretty 1983, Robert Smith, “The Lovecats”, performed by The Cure:
   • He entertained us wonderfully.
   • “Tacoma has a wonderfully local and real vibe versus some anonymity that can occur in bigger cities,” she says. 2024 June 23, Corinne Whiting, quoting Kathy Conn, “The dazzling sides of ‘Grit City’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
2. In a wonderful manner. ▸ To an extent inspiring wonder.
   • It was wonderfully stormy and dark on the night when the ship went down.
   • Although this run was made on Whitsun-Tuesday, and the traffic into London was heavy from all directions, we got a wonderfully clear road and apart from one slight check at Herne Hill were entirely undelayed. 1959 October 14, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:
   • On a clear night, the Montana sky is wonderfully vast and full of stars.

Forms

Synonyms

wondrously

Translations (36)

vi đáng ngạc nhiên (to an extent inspiring wonder) · pl zdumiewająco (to an extent inspiring wonder) · ru удиви́тельно (to an extent inspiring wonder) · wa clapanmint (in a wonderful manner) · ca meravellosament (in a wonderful manner) · ru замеча́тельно (in a wonderful manner) · it meravigliosamente (in a wonderful manner) · nl fantastisch (in a wonderful manner) · fr merveilleusement (to an extent inspiring wonder) · pt maravilhosamente (to an extent inspiring wonder) · nl wonderlijk (in a wonderful manner) · hu csodálatosan (in a wonderful manner) · pt maravilhosamente (in a wonderful manner) · pl cudownie (in a wonderful manner) · fi ihmeellisen (to an extent inspiring wonder) · hy հրաշալիորեն (to an extent inspiring wonder) · la mirābiliter (in a wonderful manner) · grc θαυμασίως (in a wonderful manner) · pl zadziwiająco (in a wonderful manner) · gl marabillosamente (to an extent inspiring wonder) · grc θαυμασίως (to an extent inspiring wonder) · cmn 极好地 (to an extent inspiring wonder) · hu csodásan (in a wonderful manner) · pl zadziwiająco (to an extent inspiring wonder) · fr merveilleusement (in a wonderful manner) · sv underbart (in a wonderful manner) · eo mirinde (in a wonderful manner) · de wunderbar (to an extent inspiring wonder) · pl zdumiewająco (in a wonderful manner) · cmn 精彩地 (in a wonderful manner) · nl wonderlijk (to an extent inspiring wonder) · it meravigliosamente (to an extent inspiring wonder) · la mirābiliter (to an extent inspiring wonder) · fi loistavasti (in a wonderful manner) · gl marabillosamente (in a wonderful manner) · sv ljuvligt (in a wonderful manner)