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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wonderful
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/great/wonderful etc feeling
▪ It's a great feeling when you try something new and it works.
a good/great/wonderful etc opportunity
▪ It's a great opportunity to try new things.
a good/perfect/wonderful companion
▪ For older people a pet cat can be a very good companion.
a wonderful excuse (=a very good excuse)
▪ A wedding is a wonderful excuse to buy a new outfit.
great/wonderful news
▪ They're getting married? That's wonderful news!
spectacular/magnificent/wonderful etc (=very impressive)
▪ Tourists come for the winter sports and the spectacular scenery.
weird and wonderful (=very strange)
▪ They sell all sorts of weird and wonderful products.
wonderful/magnificent/spectacular/breathtaking
▪ There are breathtaking views from the top of the hill.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
▪ So sad, when you remember how wonderful she was, and how much she's always done for the village.
▪ There was no denying, in any way; shape or form, just how wonderful it was.
▪ In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were.
How incredibly hard it is, how wonderful and how awful-often in the space of a few minutes.
▪ He was telling people how wonderful things would be in the future.
▪ See how wonderful I am doing despite the Bureau of Mines being closed.
▪ She just lay thinking how wonderful it would be if she could actually make Pete notice her.
▪ I can not express how wonderful it is to be sometimes told, rather than always doing the telling!
more
▪ His mind is a wand more wonderful than the touch of Midas that could turn all things to gold.
▪ This will still apply regardless of how much more wonderful the paraphernalia of science continues to become.
▪ But the life that is devoted to the finding of beauty is far more wonderful.
▪ It all simply remains wonderful-and will seem even more wonderful when answers have been provided.
▪ Here are to be found experiences more wonderful even than mukti, moksha, sartori, or grace.
▪ And what is even more wonderful, they all think the world of each other.
most
▪ In another pocket there was a most wonderful engine, at the end of a long chain.
▪ But I still think of this as the most wonderful meal of my life.
▪ It will probably be among the most wonderful experiences you've had in any theatre.
▪ Sighing at the wonderful smells from her kitchen, he apologized for being late, but the most wonderful thing had happened.
▪ She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she's been a good friend.
▪ But before she died, she had the most wonderful visions visions of a beautiful house, visions of her deceased grandmother.
▪ During the whole of the great day we had most wonderful food.
▪ I still believe the cafe in Datil is the most wonderful place on Planet Earth.
really
▪ There was a really wonderful rocket.
▪ I had a really wonderful time.
▪ What was really wonderful was that the paper swallowed the hoax whole.
▪ Well now we come to West Birk Hatt and the Fawcett family, and really wonderful people they were.
▪ Gee, this is really wonderful.
▪ It sounds really wonderful with a big choir.
▪ Why settle for mediocre goals when you could achieve something really wonderful?
so
▪ Yes, I'd like to, it looks so wonderful at night.
▪ Ah, so wonderful, thought Hansel and Gretel.
▪ All the others thought it was so wonderful and I couldn't understand what I was missing.
▪ But numbers on economic growth that look so wonderful for the emerging world tell only half the story.
▪ Anabelle had never tasted anything so wonderful.
▪ That is probably why Andrade's foods taste so wonderful: They're filled with clean, lively flavors.
▪ I never saw the views so wonderful.
▪ In fact, I felt so wonderful that I glanced back at Old Red.
■ NOUN
day
▪ And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day, complete with the white wedding car.
▪ It would be the fearful as well as the wonderful day of the Lord.
▪ Or so I thought, in the good days, the wonderful days, before I felt it.
▪ It will be a wonderful day when somebody picks up the Oscar and does the same thing.
▪ All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went.
▪ That first terrifying, wonderful day.
idea
▪ Yes, it's a wonderful idea, computer!
▪ Children are encouraged to have and pursue their own wonderful ideas.
▪ I have a wonderful idea for a restaurant ... all I need is the money.
▪ But I thought it was a wonderful idea.
▪ Not a minute to wait Isn't lastminute.com a wonderful idea?
▪ It's a wonderful idea, of course!
job
▪ If you set unobtainable objectives you will be seen to have failed even if you do a wonderful job.
▪ He said Minneapolis did a wonderful job in 1992, despite the freezing cold.
▪ He said he'd done a wonderful job in very difficult circumstances.
▪ The players, meanwhile, are doing a wonderful job of not overselling the new ballpark concept.
▪ And it was, of course, a wonderful job.
▪ You saw the owner as a fortunate person-some one who had created a wonderful job for himself.
▪ For example, he reels out evidence that the Government are doing a wonderful job.
▪ Mr John Sumsion, the original Registrar, did a wonderful job.
man
▪ After his untimely death, she had passed the figure on to Carla as a memento of a wonderful man.
▪ He was a husband in a million, a good kind man, a wonderful man to his friends.
▪ A wonderful man and a fine teacher.
news
▪ It was mostly about the child and the wonderful news that he had accomplished an A and a G all by himself.
▪ Cassie shook her head, her mind full of his wonderful news.
▪ They are wonderful news for all of us.
▪ Female speaker It's wonderful news for the poor person.
opportunity
▪ Walking offers wonderful opportunities to get close to wildlife.
▪ This is a very wonderful opportunity for you.
▪ It is a wonderful opportunity to see the major suppliers and decide on the lists you want to consider.
▪ The second salesman excitedly explained that there were wonderful opportunities with an almost unlimited market because no one had shoes yet!
▪ He has built a good team and has a wonderful opportunity and the will to see it through.
▪ And the garish casinos were wonderful opportunities for failure.
▪ This gives him a wonderful opportunity to articulate why he wants to be president.
people
▪ They think they're wonderful people who can never do anything wrong.
▪ They were wonderful people who had the full gamut of emotions.
▪ I met some wonderful people in that place.
▪ And all of the wonderful people I have known.
▪ Well now we come to West Birk Hatt and the Fawcett family, and really wonderful people they were.
▪ There were so many wonderful things and wonderful people connected with it.
▪ What a privilege it has been to share that trip with so many wonderful people.
person
▪ Aunt Dorcas, or Auntie Dor as we called her, was a wonderful person.
▪ The reason she is able to deal with this is because she was a wonderful person before this accident ever happened.
▪ And she is the most wonderful person I have ever known.
▪ She was such a wonderful person.
place
▪ In summer it is a wonderful place for picnics and for children to paddle in the stream.
▪ The Palace Hotel was a wonderful place because it had about twenty-five stores and six different restaurants.
▪ He said the vibe was perfect, a wonderful place to work in as it's so free.
▪ This is a wonderful place to daydream and dawdle.
▪ She had taken him by the hand and they had walked in this wonderful place full of lights.
▪ And there are so many wonderful places for it.
▪ The acting is superb but the backdrop, this wonderful place, will take your breath away.
▪ If we take you out of the equation that is this strange and wonderful place, how different would the place look?
thing
▪ To discover a new species would be a wonderful thing.
▪ They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time.
▪ It was the most wonderful thing to hear Jake finally say such things.
▪ But while dignity and honor are wonderful things, they do not put food on the table or pay the rent.
▪ He was telling people how wonderful things would be in the future.
▪ And I have seen some wonderful things about life as well.
▪ The little things that drive our family mad and the wonderful things that make them love us.
▪ Obviously, you go into hospital to have kids - a wonderful thing, by and large.
things
▪ The North will not get that investment if certain influential people keeping banging on about how wonderful things are.
▪ They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time.
▪ And I can see you making wonderful things out of the tails.
▪ But while dignity and honor are wonderful things, they do not put food on the table or pay the rent.
▪ Now Walter Chrysler was an important collector with a marvellous eye who bought some wonderful things.
▪ And I have seen some wonderful things about life as well.
▪ He was telling people how wonderful things would be in the future.
▪ I see this position as giving me a chance to say what wonderful things are going on in Texas.
time
▪ She's obviously having a wonderful time.
▪ You and your boyfriend have a wonderful time.
▪ Ma and Father shake hands with everyone and look as if they are having a wonderful time.
▪ Amelia had a wonderful time piloting her pet.
▪ She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor.
▪ Had a wonderful time, thanks to a generous, patient and chivalrous companion.
▪ A: It is true we had a perfectly wonderful time.
▪ For fans of irony, these are wonderful times.
view
▪ Then it began climbing again to give wonderful views over the tilting layers of rock and lush green land behind us.
▪ The rooms are spacious and luxurious, with wonderful views of the Devon countryside.
▪ Near Balbriggan, there was a wonderful view of sea and river.
▪ At the summit there is a wonderful view of the mountains of four countries.
▪ A wonderful view of most of the Cuillin skyline.
▪ One of the highest gardens in Kent, with wonderful views across the Weald.
way
▪ The terrace is small and the plants aren't great-but it overlooks London in a rather wonderful way.
▪ There is a wonderful way the world will take you at your word.
▪ It is a wonderful way of assuring the presence of core stock and building up stock in Dillons stores.
▪ The Holy Spirit moved and worked through you in a wonderful way this morning.
▪ The old Craven Way is a wonderful way of coming into Dentdale from Ribblesdale.
▪ I should like to see his frank expression and hear his wonderful way of speaking.
▪ Oil burners are wonderful ways of filling a room with a relaxing aroma.
▪ Because, if it's going well, it's a wonderful way to live.
world
▪ And there was that wonderful world of smells!
▪ And what a wonderful world of myth one finds in celebration of this universal mystery!
▪ The wonderful world of reprints One happy way of making a series is by reprinting earlier works in a standardised format.
▪ In fact, her affection for the wonderful world in which she lives has helped her survive.
▪ The wonderful world of dreams had better go.
▪ The Labour party approaches all economic matters on the basis of the new wonderful world of cost-free pay.
▪ Step out of reality - and into a wonderful world of fantasy.
▪ It was a wonderful world, and the aunt was locked out of it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a good/wonderful/terrible etc cook
▪ As a result, the adult John is obsessed with food, has an overstocked fridge and is a good cook.
▪ Franca, said to be a good cook, was not a good cook, just an ingenious cook.
▪ He is a good cook, isn't he?
▪ My aunt and I are good cooks.
▪ Nils may be a good cook, but his time will be better spent away from the galley.
▪ Of motivation to get good grades in school or to be a good cook?
▪ To be a good cook you have to do a lot of things precisely, but it requires no understanding.
▪ Zelah was a good cook and he enjoyed the meal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ You're lucky you have such wonderful kids.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the Dispensary the doctors and nurses are wonderful.
▪ I always had a wonderful time when we went, and not just because I was with Lois.
▪ In others, central research laboratories produce wonderful results which are of no use to the business.
▪ It's wonderful to have something ancient returned to use.
▪ It reminds me of those wonderful times when a play comes together and it is larger than its individual parts.
▪ Little Billy waved back and laughed and thought how wonderful it all was.
▪ The southwest tower is a wonderful instance of late Gothic work.
▪ Then, my dear Summerlee, it is that most wonderful of devices: a perpetual motion machine!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wonderful

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
wonderful

late Old English wunderfoll; see wonder (n.) + -ful. Related: Wonderfully.

Wiktionary
wonderful

a. 1 (context now rare English) Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary. 2 Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

WordNet
wonderful

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

Wonderful may refer to:

Wonderful (Rick James album)

Wonderful is a 1988 Rick James album. It was released on the Reprise Records label.

Wonderful (Madness album)

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 (The Beach Boys song)

"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 (Circle Jerks album)

Wonderful is the fourth studio album by the Circle Jerks, released in 1985.

Wonderful (Everclear song)

"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 (Adam Ant album)

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 (Ja Rule song)

"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 (Marques Houston song)

"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 (Annie Lennox song)

"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 (Erakah 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 (Iris song)

"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 (Angel song)

"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 (Gary Go song)

"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 (band)

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.