adv
Meaning 1
In a wonderful manner.
In an excellent manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He entertained us wonderfully.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wonderfully
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/
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CMU ARPABET: W AH1 N D ER0 F AH0 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: W AH1 N D ER0 F L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
In a wonderful manner.
To an extent inspiring wonder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wondrously
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
(used as an intensifier) extremely well
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- her voice is superbly disciplined
- the colors changed wondrously slowly
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English wonderfully, wunderfullie, wonderfulliche, equivalent to wonderful + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: meravellosament — in a wonderful manner
- Chinese Mandarin: 精彩地 — in a wonderful manner
- Dutch: wonderlijk — in a wonderful manner
- Dutch: fantastisch — in a wonderful manner
- Esperanto: mirinde — in a wonderful manner
- Finnish: loistavasti — in a wonderful manner
- French: merveilleusement — in a wonderful manner
- Galician: marabillosamente — in a wonderful manner
- Ancient Greek: θαυμασίως (thaumasíōs) — in a wonderful manner
- Hungarian: csodálatosan — in a wonderful manner
- Hungarian: csodásan — in a wonderful manner
- Italian: meravigliosamente — in a wonderful manner
- Latin: mirābiliter — in a wonderful manner
- Polish: cudownie — in a wonderful manner
- Polish: zdumiewająco — in a wonderful manner
- Polish: zadziwiająco — in a wonderful manner
- Portuguese: maravilhosamente — in a wonderful manner
- Russian: замеча́тельно (zamečátelʹno) — in a wonderful manner
- Swedish: underbart — in a wonderful manner
- Swedish: ljuvligt — in a wonderful manner
- Walloon: clapanmint — in a wonderful manner
- Armenian: հրաշալիորեն (hrašalioren) — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Chinese Mandarin: 极好地 — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Dutch: wonderlijk — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Finnish: ihmeellisen — to an extent inspiring wonder
- French: merveilleusement — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Galician: marabillosamente — to an extent inspiring wonder
- German: wunderbar — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Ancient Greek: θαυμασίως (thaumasíōs) — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Italian: meravigliosamente — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Latin: mirābiliter — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Polish: zadziwiająco — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Polish: zdumiewająco — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Portuguese: maravilhosamente — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Russian: удиви́тельно (udivítelʹno) — to an extent inspiring wonder
- Vietnamese: đáng ngạc nhiên — to an extent inspiring wonder
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