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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wonderful \Won"der*ful\, a. Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing.
Syn: Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. [1913 Webster] -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English wunderfoll; see wonder (n.) + -ful. Related: Wonderfully.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context now rare English) Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary. 2 Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: fantastic, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wondrous]
Wikipedia
Wonderful may refer to:
Wonderful is a 1988 Rick James album. It was released on the Reprise Records label.
Wonderful is an album by the British ska band Madness. It was released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). It's the first studio album since 1984's Keep Moving to feature the original line-up.
"Wonderful" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks for American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1967 album Smiley Smile, but was attempted earlier for the Smile sessions. Wilson claims that he and Parks wrote the song along with " Heroes and Villains" " Cabin Essence" and " Surf's Up" in a giant sandbox with a piano in it that Wilson had moved into his living room. When released on Smiley Smile, Parks' credit was omitted.
The song has since been covered by a variety of artists.
Wonderful is the fourth studio album by the Circle Jerks, released in 1985.
"Wonderful" is a song by the band Everclear, released as the first single from their 2000 album Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile, reaching #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. To date this song remains to be the band's only Top 40 hit on the Hot 100.
Wonderful is Adam Ant's fifth solo studio album and the eighth LP overall of his career. It peaked at #143 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band for this album included Ant's long-time collaborator Marco Pirroni, along with ex- Ruts drummer Dave Ruffy and Morrissey's guitarist Boz Boorer.
This album included more acoustic songs than Ant's previous albums. This album repositioned Adam as a more mature pop-rocker, with crafted songs that featured acoustic guitars as prominently as electrics. The album was a moderate hit in the US and UK, as was the single "Wonderful" which became Ant's third ever US Top 40 hit single. This was the first Adam Ant album to be released in the US before the UK.
Its working title was Slapdash Eden and 25 tracks had been written for the project, of which eleven appeared on the final product. The Japanese release came with a mini poster. Promotional cards were released, each card related to one of the album's tracks including Ant's real meanings behind the lyrics of the track.
"Wonderful" is the lead single from rapper Ja Rule's 2004 album R.U.L.E.. The song features American pop- R&B singers R. Kelly and Ashanti. Hype Williams directed the music video.
On Ashanti's album Concrete Rose there was a remix featuring R. Kelly's chorus, Ja Rule's two verses from the original, and then a new Ashanti verse exclusively on the remix. The remix cut out R. Kelly's verse.
"Wonderful" is the fourth single by Marques Houston's third studio album, Veteran. It's the sixth track on the album. It was premiered on BET's Access Granted & Yahoo! Music on July 18, 2007. It peaked at #46 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs. This song was written by NeYo produced by Stereotypes.
"Wonderful" is a song by Annie Lennox, released as the third and last single from her album Bare in 2004. It was released as a CD single and 12 inch single in the United States and only as a promotional single elsewhere. The single topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart for a week and became her fifth number one on that chart. No music video was made for this song.
"Wonderful" is the second single by New Zealand pop and R&B singer Erakah. It was released by Illegal Musik on 21 September 2009.
Erakah won the Best Pacific Female Artist award at the 2010 Pacific Music Awards for "Wonderful".
"Wonderful" is the debut single by Belgian female singer Iris. The song was written by Guus Fluit, Wouter Vander Veken and Piet Vastenavondt. It was released in Belgium as a digital download on 18 November 2011.
"Wonderful" is a song by British singer-songwriter and producer Angel. It was first released in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2012 as the second single from the his debut studio album About Time (2013), debuting at number twenty for the week ending 28 July, reaching a peak of number nine several weeks later.
"Wonderful" is a song by British singer Gary Go, released on 16 February 2009 as the first and debut single from his debut album Gary Go. It reached #25 on the UK singles chart and was a Top 40 on the Hot AC chart in the US. The song was selected as Pop Song Of The Year by iTunes US in their Rewind recap of 2009 releases. A version of the song became the title song for the German film Men in the City for which a new music video was filmed on a Berlin rooftop including scenes from the film. It is also used in the trailer for the Disneynature film Oceans, in the TVI Portuguese novella Mar de Paixão, at the conclusion of an American Idol episode, and in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 during the interval, in a mini movie involving clips from the shorts that were broadcast before every song from the contest. "Wonderful" was also used in Sky Sports' closing montage of the 2011–12 Premier League season.
Wonderful is a Seattle, Washington band formed in 1999.
Usage examples of "wonderful".
All who receive influx from heaven and acknowledge divine providence, especially those who have become spiritual through reformation, on beholding events taking a wonderful course see providence as it were from an interior acknowledgment and confess it.
Besides acquiring by arms such a noble territory in France, besides defending it against continual attempts of the French monarch and all its neighbors, besides exerting many acts of vigor under their present sovereign, they had, about this very time, revived their ancient fame, by the most hazardous exploits, and the moat wonderful successes, in the other extremity of Europe.
For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.
Meg went about from house to house, begging deadclothes, and got the body straighted in a wonderful decent manner, with a plate of earth and salt placed upon it--an admonitory type of mortality and eternal life that has ill-advisedly gone out of fashion.
I cannot refrain from expressing my admiration for the wonderful, I might almost say adorable, being who wants to convince you that you are truly his mistress.
First, because some of the Gentiles used to adore the images themselves, as things, believing that there was something Divine therein, on account of the answers which the demons used to give in them, and on account of other such like wonderful effects.
There was an affectionate note from Eleanor Roosevelt: From all sides I have been hearing of the wonderful job you have done on your goodwill tour, and I have felt proud that you were representing our country.
Though he had been ailing for years, as has been stated, yet his wonderful energy of mind made it appear to many that there was no immediate danger of his life.
All these are most secret secrets, and I am glad when I remember what they are, and how many wonderful languages I know, but there are some things that I call the secrets of the secrets of the secrets that I dare not think of unless I am quite alone, and then I shut my eyes, and put my hands over them and whisper the word, and the Alala comes.
To a superficial observer, so wonderful a regularity may be admired as the effect either of chance or design: but a skilful algebraist immediately concludes it to be the work of necessity, and demonstrates, that it must for ever result from the nature of these numbers.
Deborah was a little 254 ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL smasher all right, and she looked nice, too, but no no .
Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomaea, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.
If it was the wonderful Amalgamation I was going to be all that grateful to, who else could possibly be responsible?
Wonderful that she made a breed of amaranth that makes the colony protein self-sufficient with only ten acres under cultivation.
Tuff is much softer than basalt and andesite, and over the years this exposed layer has eroded away, leaving us with our wonderful hotel.