wonderfully
part of speech
adverb (wonderfully)
meaning for a pupil
1) Wonderfully means in a very good, pleasing or delightful way. tree →
2) Wonderfully can also mean very or extremely, in a good way, as in "wonderfully warm". tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday speech and stories, "wonderfully" adds strong praise: a show was wonderfully funny, the weather was wonderfully sunny. In writing lessons it is a lively adverb to describe how something was done. Phrases: "wonderfully well", "wonderfully kind", "wonderfully done".
examples
- You sang wonderfully at the concert. tree →
- The bath was wonderfully warm after the cold walk. tree →
- Grandma is wonderfully kind to everyone. tree →
- The plan worked wonderfully. tree →
- The cake was wonderfully gooey in the middle. tree →
- The children behaved wonderfully on the trip. tree →
- That merchant's business began to prosper wonderfully. tree →
note
It is wonderful + -ly; note the double l: wonderfully. Similar: brilliantly, marvellously (UK) / marvelously (US), beautifully. Do not confuse with "wondering" (thinking about something).
In the corpora
- A chatbot is wonderfully good at sounding right: clear sentences, a calm voice, no "erm".
- The second word: «That was wonderfully done.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wonderfully» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.