Wonderful
['wʌndəfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['wʌndɚfl]
Definition
(a.) Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.
Editor: Vanessa
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Astonishing, astounding, surprising, amazing, startling, marvellous, wondrous, miraculous, very extraordinary, very strange.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:amazing, astonishing, wondrous, admirable, strange, striking, surprising,awful, prodigious, portentous, marvelous, miraculous, supernatural,unprecedented, startling
ANT:non-amazing, unastonishing, unsurprising, common, everyday, regular, normal,customary, usual, expected, anticipated, calculated, current, natural,unwonderful, unmarvelous
Editor: Maureen
Examples
- Miss Mills had a wonderful flow of words, and liked to pour them out. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She had discovered something, something more than wonderful, more wonderful than life itself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Its sagacity is wonderful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is really wonderful to think of Rudolph still being alive, mused Mrs Dengelton, taking no notice of the Rector's historical explanation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It _is_ wonderful, replied Wickham, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; and pride had often been his best friend. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Why the bookseller that sold me the Wonderful Museum--where's the Wonderful Museum? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was a wonderful experience to have problems given me out of the intuitions of a great mind, based on enormous experience in practical work, and applying to new lines of progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Oh, I do think these phrases are too absurdly wonderful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It's perfectly wonderful, Birkin harrowing Hell--harrowing the Pompadour--HIC! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With wonderful quickness, and with a strength both of will and action, that appeared quite supernatural, he forced all these changes upon him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I think St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, found this wonderful memento when she was here in the third century. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The other said: Ah, that wonderful face is so humble, so pleading--it says as plainly as words could say it: 'I fear; I tremble; I am unworthy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This was a wonderful discovery, and was preserved as a trade secret for a long time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is wonderful how art and ingenuity united about thirty years ago to produce attractive _wall papers_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Everything he says will seem wonderful to their short lived generation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- How wonderful is prophecy! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Where is this wonderful amulet? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It's wonderful how close poor Peter was, she said, in the same undertones. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The genius of that porter was something wonderful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Our good fortune had been wonderful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs Boffin has a wonderful memory. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- To see Naples as we saw it in the early dawn from far up on the side of Vesuvius, is to see a picture of wonderful beauty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It became the most wonderful exhibit of the Centennial, and the judges gave Bell their Certificate of Award. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Their ideas in physics and chemistry were the results of profound cogitation; it is wonderful that they did guess at atomic structure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Maureen