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Word entry · 9 letters

wonderful

Best crossword clue

"Delightfully excellent"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈwʌndəfl̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted deflnoruwStarts with WEnds with L5 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

Word origin

From Middle English wonderful, wondirful, from Old English wundorful (“wonderful”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundrafull, equivalent to wonder + -ful. Cognate Dutch wondervol (“wonderful”), German wundervoll (“wonderful”). Compare Old English wuldorfull (“glorious”).

Used in a sentence

  • His delusion was not wonderful, but most natural.
  • It is not wonderful that Mrs Smith declined to visit the beer garden, in view of her militant temperance. [=It is no wonder that she declined.]
  • 'Ha!' cried Dangerfield, with a sort of gasp, and a violent smirk, the joyousness of which was, however, counteracted by a lurid scowl and a wonderful livid glare in his wild eyes; […]

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Used as a crossword answer5 curated clues

01Delightfully excellent9 letters
02Delightfully good9 letters
03Very good indeed9 letters
04Very pleasing9 letters
05Excellent; delightful9 letters

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