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wonderful, a., (n.), and adv.|ˈwʌndəfʊl|
[late OE. wunderfull, f. wonder n. + -ful; cf. MLG. wonderfull, MSw. under(s)fulder.]
A. adj.
1. Full of wonder; such as to excite wonder or astonishment; marvellous; sometimes used trivially = surprisingly large, fine, excellent, etc.
a1100Aldhelm Gloss. i. 2757 (Napier 74/2) Stupendo, .i. mirando, mid wunderfulre, spectaculo, wæfersyne. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Wunderliche ben þe sæ ut sondes, and wunderful is ure louerd on þeunesse. c1275Lay. 280 Hii funde..Þat ȝe mid one sone was wonderfol to telle. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8575 God sende uor is luþernesse moni deoluol cas In þis lond & wonderuol. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6404 Of þe day of dome..And of þe wondirful takens many, Þat salle falle byfor þat day. c1400Destr. Troy 1355 There were wemen to wale, A wondurfull nowmbur. a1425Cursor M. 9314 (Trin.) Men shul him calle nomes sere Wondirful & counsellere. c1450Mirk's Festial 20 Þer God worcheth mony wondyrfull myracles for hym. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 451 Wise women has..wonderfull gydingis,..to beiaip ther ielyus husbandis. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 49 The wonderfull and sumptuous woorke of the sepulcher whiche Artemisia made. 1596J. Smythe in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 91 Whereof ensued unto me..a wonderfull payne in my stomacke. 1611Bible Prov. xxx. 18 There be three things which are too wonderfull for me; yea foure, which I know not. 1632Lithgow Trav. iv. 134 They made a wonderfull massacre of poore afflicted Christians. 1779Mrs. Delany Let. to Mrs. Port 17 Apr., Give him the juice of clivers or goose grass, which is wonderfull, pounded with a little cold water. 1827Carlyle Misc., Richter (1872) I. 11 The unhappy man persuades himself that he has..become a new creature, of the wonderfulest symmetry. 1834Dickens Sk. Boz, Boarding-ho. ii, Mr. Tomkins..had a wonderful eye for the picturesque. 1840Faber Hymn, My God, how wonderful Thou art! 1880Blackmore Mary Anerley xxxvi. II. 303 Every Sunday morning, he trimmed his whiskers, and put on a wonderful waistcoat. 1884Ruskin Pleas. Eng. iii. §78 Robert Guiscard, the most wonderful soldier of that or any other time.
b. the wonderful: that which is wonderful. † Also n. pl. wonderful things.
1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 75 This temper of the people..drove the magicians..to a confederacy with the Devil for a supply of wonderfuls to delude the people. 1749Fielding Tom Jones viii. i, Every Writer may be permitted to deal as much in the Wonderful as he pleases. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 20 One unvarying predilection for the wonderful runs through the whole series of his poems.
†2. Filled with wonder or admiration. Obs. rare.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 308 Makinge persones wondirful bi cause of here wynnyng. 1552Huloet, Wonderfull,..admirabundus. 1583Harsnet Serm. Ezek. in R. Stuart's Serm. etc. (1658) 132 The H[oly] Fathers are wonderfull in the contemplation of mans excellency at the first.
B. adv. = wonderfully 1. Now dial.
c1400Rowland & O. 50 Now come þam..wondirfull hasty tythande. 14..Sir Beues (M.) 3866 A wonderffull gret route. 1531Elyot Gov. i. xi. (1883) I. 79 Cosmographie is to all noble men, nat only pleasant, but..wonderfull necessary. 1625Bacon Ess., Boldness (Arb.) 518 Wonderfull like is the Case of Boldnesse, in Ciuill Businesse. 1722Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) VII. 381 Being full of wooden Cutts, wch makes the Book wonderfull curious. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 84 They're maistly wonderfu' contented. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay ix, She was wonderful fond of Elsie. |