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# wonderful

«wonderful» in Mova's school dictionary: **very good, very nice or enjoyable: a wonderful day** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (wonderful); adverb wonderfully

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wonderful means very good, very nice or enjoyable: a wonderful day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#m1)

2) Wonderful means causing wonder, surprising and amazing: the wonderful world of nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#m2)

3) (ironic) «Oh, wonderful» can be said in a cross voice when something goes badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in everyday talk, stories and letters to praise things and people. In science and nature lessons, it shows amazement at the natural world. Phrases: a wonderful time, wonderful news, what a wonderful idea, wonderfully kind.

### examples

- We had a wonderful time at the seaside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x1)
- What wonderful news! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x2)
- You did a wonderful job on your painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x3)
- The rainforest is full of wonderful creatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x4)
- She is wonderfully kind to everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x5)
- It's raining on sports day. Oh, wonderful, said Dad crossly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x6)
- It was really a wonderful light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x7)

### note

Spelling: one l at the end — wonderful, not «wonderfull». Similar: marvellous (UK) / marvelous (US), fantastic, brilliant (UK), awesome (US). It is an adjective; don't say «she sings wonderful» — say «she sings wonderfully».

### In the corpora

- [The future of AI is probably neither all wonderful nor all terrible; it depends on the choices people make.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/12/)
- [Bears are wonderful to see from far away and dangerous up close.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/320-bears-up-close-noses-claws-dens-the-honey-myth-and-bear-safety/4/)
- [The Rat is starving, but he nods and says «wonderful» — he knows what his friend needs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/43-willows-ch5-part3-sardines-and-carol-singers/12/)
- [The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a great hollow where the Wonderful Tree grows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/3/)
- [Wild Cow comes next and promises her milk every day for the wonderful grass; she becomes the Giver of Good Food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/94-justso-cat-2-a-bargain-and-a-baby/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wonderful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.