wonderful
part of speech
adjective (wonderful); adverb wonderfully
meaning for a pupil
1) Wonderful means very good, very nice or enjoyable: a wonderful day. tree →
2) Wonderful means causing wonder, surprising and amazing: the wonderful world of nature. tree →
3) (ironic) «Oh, wonderful» can be said in a cross voice when something goes badly. tree →
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 →
- What wonderful news! tree →
- You did a wonderful job on your painting. tree →
- The rainforest is full of wonderful creatures. tree →
- She is wonderfully kind to everyone. tree →
- It's raining on sports day. Oh, wonderful, said Dad crossly. tree →
- It was really a wonderful light. tree →
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.
- Bears are wonderful to see from far away and dangerous up close.
- The Rat is starving, but he nods and says «wonderful» — he knows what his friend needs.
- The sea carries the canoe to Pusat Tasek, the Heart of the Sea, a great hollow where the Wonderful Tree grows.
- Wild Cow comes next and promises her milk every day for the wonderful grass; she becomes the Giver of Good Food.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wonderful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.