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Definition: Wonderful |
WonderfulAdjective1. Extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wonderful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| WOL | English | Wonderful Old Ladyhood | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WonderfulSynonyms: fantastic (adj), howling(a) (adj), marvellous (adj), marvelous (adj), rattling(a) (adj), terrific (adj), tremendous (adj), wondrous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unconformity | Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized. |
Wonder | Wonderful, wondrous; surprising; Verb: unexpected; unheard of; mysterious; (inexplicable); miraculous. |
Be wonderful; Adjective: beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She's wonderful. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) What a wonderful time to be alive, eh (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.) I was giving something wonderful, that changed me forever (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) It is a wonderful hat. (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) | |
Lyrics | Make everything be wonderful again (Wonderful; performing artist: Everclear) And I say yes, you look wonderful tonight (Wonderful Tonight; performing artist: ERIC CLAPTON) What a wonderful world this would be (Wonderful World; performing artist: Herman's Hermits) And I think to myself what a wonderful world ("What a Wonderful World"; performing artist: Louis Armstrong) It's a wonderful world (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) | |
Clever | Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. (references; author: Bob Hope) It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. (references; author: Mark Twain) Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need do to lose weight is to take a bath. (references; author: unknown) Because you are someone special, I send joy, my love, today. For you are very wonderful in each and every way. (references; author: unknown) Grandparents: The people who think your children are wonderful, even though they're sure you're not raising them right. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel (1972) Our Wonderful Body: How It Moves (1968) The Wonderful World of Girls (1965) Wonderful Life (1964) Wild and Wonderful (1964) | |
Song Titles | Wonderful World (performing artist: Sam Cooke) Wonderful World (performing artist: Herman's Hermits) WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD (performing artist: Louis Armstrong ) A WONDERFUL DREAM (performing artist: Majors ) YOU'RE A WONDERFUL ONE (performing artist: Marvin Gaye ) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In the beginning of the 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life," angelic figures ... Credit: NASA. |  | Kayaks on the beach at Chincoteague with a wonderful piece of driftwood. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A road through the live oak forest on Cabretta. The shadows weave a wonderful texture on the road surface. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A section of a beautiful poster of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco showing the museum in its wonderful location by the sea. This image was painted by Marcel Camia. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Although not a Weather Bureau satellite being launched, the wetlands and seabirds of Cape Canaveral provide a wonderful forefront for observing this launch. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Green beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. |
 | Sweet Corn. Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmers Market held on a parking lot at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC. Market day is every Friday during the growing and harvest season. Credit: USDA. |  | Petit Pan Squash. Fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. |
 | Wonderful petroglyphs can be found in the Ironwood Forest Naitonal Monument at the Cocoraque Butte in the Archaeological District. Credit: Chris Tincher. |  | Sherrie Petersen and Denise Meridith, Arizona State Director, greet WOW campers. The WOW program -- Wonderful Outdoor World -- brings the great outdoors to urban youth. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Sedona Red Rock" by Jeff Noble Commentary: "A view of the wonderful red rock of Sedona, Arizona." | "Fern" by MICHAEL HOMBURG CLAN.DREI Commentary: "It was a wonderful day." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Great; aces; slang; dynamite; fantastic; good; marvelous; perfect; positive; super dupe; terrific; wonderful; cool. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Ann Landers | Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. |
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini | How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. |
Gioacchino Rossini | Wagner had some wonderful moments but awful half hours. |
Mae West | Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. |
Mary Tyler Moore | Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. |
Michelangelo | If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. |
Moliere | He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. |
Will Rogers | Peace is like a beautiful woman, it's wonderful, but has been known to bear watching. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | I suddenly felt, well, terribly old as I watched a mudskipper hopping along with what now seemed to me like a wonderful sense of hopeless, boundless naive optimism |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Paris combines in one wonderful type which has had real existence, and actually elbowed us, the Greek nudity, the Hebrew ulcer, the Gascon jest |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | O wonderful, when devils tell the truth |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Out of the right fob hung a great silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Austria | Gas stations in particular have discovered this to be a wonderful source of additional income with attached shops. (references) |
Greece | The abundance of historic sites act as a wonderful backdrop for the tourist who may not be visiting the sites themselves as a top priority. (references) | |
Travel | Israel | Diet drinks are becoming very popular as well as a variety of wonderful fresh made fruit-based shakes and popular beverages from the U.S. Coffee bars and pastry shops are on almost every street corner, and many small kiosks offer regional specialties such as falafel and shwarma sandwiches. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Gennifer Flowers | There was a time I would have married him. I am very grateful at this point that I didn't. I have a wonderful husband that I feel like will be faithful to me. |
John McCain | The most wonderful experience of my entire life. The most magnificent, the most gratifying. I cannot tell you how much I loved that experience. |
Julia Child | Good. And I think, too, it's wonderful they know exactly how to crack that crab so that you can eat it easily, don't they. |
King Constantine of Greece | May I say, Your Majesty, this has been a delight. I've looked forward to it. Wonderful talking with you. And I look forward to meeting you in person in Athens at the next Olympics. |
Lynne Cheney | Oh, Laura Bush is just wonderful. I think everyone knows the way in which she's wonderful. She's kind and she's thoughtful. |
Mattie Stepanek | That was very exciting. It is a wonderful foreword, and that was just really, really cool when we heard that Maya Angelou was indeed doing the foreword. |
Paul Anka | We have a wonderful chorus, all local friends who have worked with me before, and they have come along to contribute. |
Regis Philbin | To go to South Bend was really an eye-opening experience for me. But it was wonderful. I mean, Notre Dame, right away, I felt that spirit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I will ask them to move on to develop a creative federalism to best use the wonderful diversity of our institutions and our people to solve the problems and to fulfill the dreams of the American people. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Some may say it is simply because the President and his wonderful wife have been obsessed with this subject for more years than they can recall. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Wonderful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wonderful" is used about 4,879 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4,879 | 2,005 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wonderful": how wonderful ♦ wonderful news ♦ wonderful occurrence ♦ wonderful sight. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "wonderful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wonderbaarlik (amazing, astonishing, miraculous). (various references) | |
Albanian | i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wondrous), i mahnitshëm (admirable, spectacular, wondrous), i jashtëzakonshëm (egregious, emergency, exceeding, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, sole, stupendous, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual), i habitshëm (amazing, astonishing, fabulous, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, oddish, portentous, strange, striking, unusual). (various references) | |
Arabic | مدهش (agape, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wondrous), عجيب (amazement, bizarre, fanciful, freakish, funny, marvellous, marvelous, odd, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, stupendous, tall, temperamental, weird, wonder, wondrous), رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wondrous), بديع (admirable, adorable, amazing, excellent, fine, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, original, splendid, superb, unique, unprecedented). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | учудващ (miraculous, wondrous), удивителен (amazing, astonishing, astounding, dizzy, exclamatory, extraordinary, fantastic, fantastical, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising), чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard), възхитителен (admirable, adorable, delectable, delicious, delightful, lovely, unexceptionable), великолепен (champion, colossal, glorious, gorgeous, grand, immense, imperial, magnificent, palatial, pompous, princely, royal, smashing, splashing, splendid, super, superb), необикновено добър, много добър (king size), забележителен (eminent, extraordinary, incredible, memorable, notable, noteworthy, proud, remarkable, salient, signal, some, thumping, unco, unique, unusual). (various references) | |
Chinese | 玅 (clever, look, take a look at, to see), 美妙 (Fabulous), 奇妙 (fantastic), 奇 (odd, strange, weird), 妙 (clever). (various references) | |
Czech | znamenitý (able, classic, excellent, exquisite, signal), vynikající (accomplished, amazing, beautiful, champion, chance, delicious, egregious, eminent, excellent, exquisite, fine, magnificent, notable, outstanding, preeminent, prize, prominent, star, sterling, superlative), výteèný (delicious, exquisite, gorgeous, preeminent, prize), skvìlý (accomplished, admirable, bright, brilliant, dashing, distinguished, excellent, fine, glorious, grand, palmy, proud, splendid, swell, tiptop), senzaèní (delicious, fine, gorgeous, grand, great, groovy, hot, magic, mean, sensational, smashing, startling, stunning, swell, terrific, thrilling), podivuhodný (admirable, marvelous, prodigious), bájeèný (blissful, fabulous, glorious, gorgeous, great, groovy, magic, magnificent, nailing, priceless, terrific, wondrous, yummy), úžasný (admirable, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, glorious, hot, nailing, phenomenal, prodigious, splendid, stupendous, terrific, tremendous). (various references) | |
Dutch | wonderbaar (miraculous), verwonderend. (various references) | |
Esperanto | mirinda. (various references) | |
Faeroese | undranarverdur. (various references) | |
Finnish | ihmeteltävä (astonishing, surprising), ihmeellinen (marvellous, miraculous, odd, strange), ihana (delightful, fine, glorious, lovely, marvellous). (various references) | |
French | merveilleux (wondrous), formidable (wonder). (various references) | |
German | wunderbar (admirable, delightful, delightfully, lovely, magically, marvellous, marvellously, marvelous, miraculous, miraculously, prodigious, prodigiously, wonderfully, wondrous), wundervoll (marvelous, wonderfully), herrlich (agreeable, beautifully, blissfully, brilliantly, enjoyable, funny, glorious, gloriously, gorgeous, gorgeously, lovely, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, marvelously, nice, pleasant, splendid, splendidly, splendiferous, superb). (various references) | |
Greek | υπέροχοσ (delicious, gorgeous, preeminent, superb, surpassing, terrific), υπέροχος (fabulous, magnificent, splendid), αξιοθαύμαστοσ, θαυμάσιοσ (admirable, fabulous, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, stunning, topping), θαυμάσιος (marvellous, superb), θαυμαστόσ (admirable, miraculous, wondrous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפליא (amazing, marvellous, prodigious, wondrous), מרהיב עין (amazing, spectacular), יופי (aesthetics, beauty, charm, fine, loveliness, lovely, niceness, prettiness, pulchritude, splendor), פלאי (amazing, astounding, miraculous), נפלא (divine, entrancing, fabulous, gorgeous, lovely, marvellous, splendid, stupendous, superb, wondrous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csodás (beautiful, divvy, heavenly, phenomenal, prodigious, unimaginably, wondrous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sangat bagus (deluxe), asoi (hot, passionate, super). (various references) | |
Irish | iontach. (various references) | |
Italian | stupendo (marvellous, marvelous, stunning, stupendous, terrific, wondrous), splendido (brilliant, proud, splendid, superb), prodigioso (magic, magical, portentous, prodigious), miracoloso (miraculous), meraviglioso (marvellous, marvelous, wondrous), magnifico (generous, glorious, gorgeous, lordly, magnificent, splendid, superb, swell), grandioso (excellent, grand, grandiose, great, magnificent, stately, tremendous), formidabile (crack, formidable, redoubtable, redoubted, smashing, terrible, tremendous), favolosamente (fabulously, super), fantastico (chimeric, crazy, eerie, fabled, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, imaginative, incredible, marvellous, marvelous), fantastici. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 驚くべき (amazing, astonishing, surprising). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すばらしい (magnificent, splendid), すごい (amazing, dreadful, great, terrible, terrific, to a great extent), おどろくべき (amazing, astonishing, surprising), ハラショー (agreed, good, splendid), きっかい (mysterious, outrageous, strange, weird), きかい (chance, instrument, machine, mechanism, mysterious, opportunity, outrageous, shogi circles, strange, the goworld, weird), きい (disliking, displeasure, odd, offense, position of aircraft, strange, your request, your will, your wishes), きょういてき, かいき (a type of thin thread, bizarre, buying mood, death anniversary, foundation of a temple, laying a foundation, outrageous, recovery, recurrence, recursion, revolution, session, society by-laws, strange, total eclipse, totality, weird), ごうか (effects of karma, extravagance, gorgeous, hell fire, pomp, splendor, valor and decisiveness, wealthy and powerful family, world-destroying conflagration), れいみょう (miraculous), めでたし, けっこう (architecture, cancellation of lecture or class, carrying out, circulation, construction, delicious, doing, nice, splendid, suspension of service, sweet, tolerably, well enough). (various references) | |
Korean | 경이롭 (Wondrous). (various references) | |
Malagasy | nahafinaritra, mahafinaritra. (various references) | |
Manx | yindyssagh (admirable, marvellous, prodigious, rare, surprising, terrific, wonderer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onderfulway.(various references) | |
Polish | wspaniały, cudowny. (various references) | |
Portuguese | maravilhoso (amazing, delightful, lovely, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, portentous, prodigious, unco, wondrous), admirável (admirable, good, marvellous, marvelous, striking, surprising). (various references) | |
Romanian | surprinzãtor (astonishing, astonishingly, startling, strange, stupendous, surprising, wonderfully), mirific, minunat (beautiful, beautifully, best, brave, bright, capital, champion, charming, delightfully, exceptional, jolly, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, passing, proud, royal, special, splendid, strange, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonder-working), mândru (big, cavalier, cock-a-hoop, conceited, erect, handsome, haughty, high, high minded, high pitched, high-flown, loftily, lofty, proud, splendid, stately), feeric (enchanting, fairy, fairy-like), extraordinar (amazing, arch, astonishing, egregious, enormous, exceedingly, extra, extraordinary, extremely, fierce, marvellous, noble, out, phenomenal, phenomenally, prodigious, proud, rare, rattling, remarkable, special, striking, terrible, tremendous, uncommon, undreamed of, unimaginable, up to the nines, well, well I never), dumnezeiesc (divine, godlike, heavenly), adorabil (admirable, adorable, amiable, charming, choice, darling, delicious, delightful, exquisite, worshipful), admirabil (admirable, admirably, beautiful, brave, capital, excellent, grand, special, splendid, that's splendid, tiptop). (various references) | |
Russian | удивительный (amazing, astonishing, astounding, electrical, marvellous, miraculous, surprising, wondrous), замечательный (admirable, corking, crack-a-jack, eminent, great, lummy, marvellous, nailing, rare, rattling, remarkable, splendid, swell, unexceptionable). (various references) | |
Scottish | iongantach (strange, surprising), amhra. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | predivan, čudesan (miraculous, prodigious, stupendous, wondrous). (various references) | |
Slovene | najlepša (most wonderful). (various references) | |
Spanish | sublime (divine, elevated, excellent, grand, lofty, magnificent, sublime, tremendous), prodigioso (downy, prodigious), maravilloso (amazing, blissful, Dandy, delighted, delightsome, divine, dreamy, dressy, engaging, gorgeous, heavenly, knockout, lead, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, rare, stunning, well done, whimsical, wondrous), maravillosa, fabuloso (fabled, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, super, untold), estupendo (admirable, amazing, Dandy, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, first rate, grand, great, heavenly, hotstuff, jenny ass, marvellous, marvelous, neat, rare, rattling, ripping, socko, stunning, stupendous, super, super-duper, surprising, swell, terrific, yippee). (various references) | |
Swedish | underbar (delightful, divine, glorious, gorgeous, great, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, perfect, wonderous, wondrous). (various references) | |
Turkish | harikulâde (marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, superb, superbly, wondrous), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), şahane (brave, corking, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, keen, magnificent, princely, wizard), şaşılacak (amazing, astonishing, astounding, prodigious, wondrous). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tдsin (amazing, marvelous), allanдme, ajaяyp (beautiful). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard), чудесний (miraculous, prodigious), вражаючий (affecting, impressive, magnific, magnifical, trimming), дивовижний (amazing, electrical, extraordinary, heavenly, marvellous, marvelous, outlandish, portentous, prodigious, remarkable, striking, stupendous, surprising), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wondrous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thần kỳ (fairily, wondrous), phi thường; kỳ diệu (wondrous), kỳ lạ (bizarre, droll, marvellous, uncanny, walloping). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhyfedd (bizarre, funny, humorous, odd, queer, strange). (various references) | |
Zulu | -mangalisayo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | admirabile, admirabilis, mîrâbile, mîrâbilis, mira, mirabile, mirabilem, mirabiles, mirabili, mirabilia, mirabilibus, mirabilis, mirabilium, mirifica, mirum, mirus, prodigiosus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Tria de estin adunata moi nohsai kai to tetarton ouk epiginwskw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tria sunt difficilia mihi et quartum penitus ignoro |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thre thingus ben hard to me, and the ferthe outerli I knowe not; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I know not: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 18 |
| Bulgarian | Три неща има, които са непостижими за мене, - Дори четири, които не разбирам: |
| Cebuano | ¶ Adunay totolo ka butang nga mga katilingad-an kaayo alang kanako, Oo, upat nga wala nako hibaloi: |
| Chinese | 我 所 測 不 透 的 奇 妙 有 三 樣 、 連 我 所 不 知 道 的 共 有 四 樣 ． |
| Croatian | Troje mi je nedokuèivo, a èetvrto ne razumijem: |
| Danish | Tre Ting undres jeg over, fire fatter jeg ikke: |
| Dutch | Deze drie dingen zijn voor mij te wonderlijk, ja, vier, die ik niet weet: |
| Finnish | Kolme on minusta ylen ihmeellistä, ja neljä on, joita en käsitä: |
| French | Il y a trois choses qui sont au-dessus de ma portée, Même quatre que je ne puis comprendre: |
| German | Drei sind mir zu wunderbar, und das vierte verstehe ich nicht: |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Gen twa bagay mwen pa janm ka konprann. Sa m'ap di la a! Gen kat bagay konsa. |
| Hungarian | E három megfoghatatlan elõttem, és e négy dolgot nem tudom: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ada empat hal yang terlalu sukar bagiku untuk dimengerti: |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Ketiga perkara ini terlalu ajaib kepadaku, bahkan, empat perkara yang tiada kuketahui. |
| Italian | Tre cose mi sono difficili, anzi quattro, che io non comprendo: |
| Maori | ¶ E toru nga mea he whakamiharo rawa, e kore e taea e ahau, ae ra, e wha kahore e mohiotia e ahau: |
| Norwegian | Det er tre ting som er mig for underlige, og fire som jeg ikke skjønner: |
| Portuguese | Há três coisas que são maravilhosas demais para mim, sim, há quatro que não conheço: |
| Rumanian | Trei lucruri sknt mai pesus de puterile mele, wi chiar patru pe cari nu le pot pricepe: |
| Russian | фТЙ ЧЕЭЙ ОЕРПУФЙЦЙНЩ ДМС НЕОС, Й ЮЕФЩТЕИ С ОЕ РПОЙНБА: |
| Spanish | Tres cosas me son misteriosas, y tampoco comprendo la cuarta: |
| Swedish | Tre ting äro mig för underbara, ja, fyra finnas, som jag icke kan spåra: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wonderful": wonderfully, wonderfulness, wonderfulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Wonderful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wnderful, woderful, womderful, wondeerful, wondeful, wonderfull, wonderfuls. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wonderful" (pronounced wu"nderful) |
| 4 | -er f u l | colorful, flavorful, masterful, powerful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: underflow. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-l-n-o-r-u-w" | |
-1 letter: flounder, unfolder. | |
-2 letters: floured, fondler, founder, frowned, reflown, refound, rewound, roundel. | |
-3 letters: downer, enduro, enfold, flowed, flower, folder, fonder, fondle, fondue, fouled, fouler, fowled, fowler, furled, louden, louder, loured, nodule, nurled, reflow, refold, refund, rolfed, rondel, rundle, undoer, undrew, unfold, weldor, woeful, wolfed, wolfer, wonder. | |
-4 letters: dowel, dower, drone, drown, endow, enrol, felon, flour. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-l-n-o-r-u-w" | |
+1 letter: underflows. | |
+2 letters: wonderfully. | |
+4 letters: wonderfulness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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