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wonderfully

adverbattested in dialogue

  • //wʌn.də(ɹ).fli//

In a wonderful manner. In an excellent manner.

adverb

  1. 1

    In a wonderful manner. In an excellent manner.

    He entertained us wonderfully.

    We're so wonderfully, wonderfully / Wonderfully, wonderfully pretty

    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).

    “Tacoma has a wonderfully local and real vibe versus some anonymity that can occur in bigger cities,” she says.

  2. 2

    In a wonderful manner. To an extent inspiring wonder.

    On a clear night, the Montana sky is wonderfully vast and full of stars.

    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.

Etymology

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

Forms

comparative
more wonderfully
superlative
most wonderfully
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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