wonderful

English

From Middle English wonderful, wondirful, from Old English wundorful (“wonderful”), equivalent to wonder +‎ -ful. Cognate Dutch wondervol (“wonderful”), German wundervoll (“wonderful”).

wonderful (comparative wonderfuller or wonderfuler or more wonderful, superlative wonderfullest or wonderfulest or most wonderful)

(now rare) Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
  '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; […]
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:
  He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.
Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
They served a wonderful six-course meal.
- 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:
  Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.

excellent, extremely impressive

Arabic: عَجِيب‎ m (ʿajīb)
Armenian: հրաշալի (hy) (hrašali)
Belarusian: цудо́ўны m (cudóŭny)
Catalan: meravellós (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 奇妙 (zh) (qímiào), 太好了 (tài hǎo le)
Czech: skvělý (cs), báječný (cs)
Danish: vidunderlig c
Dutch: fantastisch (nl), heerlijk (nl)
Dyirbal: mali
Esperanto: mirinda
Finnish: hieno (fi), mainio (fi), loistava (fi), ihana (fi)
French: merveilleux (fr)
Galician: marabilloso m
German: wunderbar (de), wundervoll (de)
Greek: θαυμάσιος (el) (thavmásios), εκπληκτικός (el) m (ekpliktikós), υπέροχος (el) m (ypérochos), έξοχος (el) m (éxochos), καταπληκτικός (el) (katapliktikós)
Ancient: θαυμάσιος (thaumásios)
Hungarian: csodálatos (hu)
Icelandic: yndislegur (is) m, dásamlegur (is) m, undursamlegur (is) m
Interlingua: meraviliose
Irish: iontach
Italian: meraviglioso (it)

Japanese: 素晴しい (すばらしい, subarashii)
Korean: 놀라운 (nollaun)
Latin: mirābilis, mīrus m
Latvian: brīnišķīgs
Luxembourgish: wonnerbar
Norman: mangnifique m or f
Norwegian: underfull
Bokmål: vidunderlig

Nynorsk: vidunderleg
Old English: wundorlic
Old Saxon: wundarlik
Persian: شگفت‎ (fa) (šegaft), شگرف‎ (fa) (šegarf)
Polish: cudowny (pl), zdumiewający (pl), zadziwiający (pl)
Portuguese: maravilhoso (pt) m, maravilhosa f
Russian: замеча́тельный (ru) (zamečátelʹnyj), чуде́сный (ru) (čudésnyj), восхити́тельный (ru) (vosxitítelʹnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhaileach
Serbo-Croatian: čudesan (sh) m
Spanish: maravilloso (es)
Swedish: underbar (sv)
Turkish: harika (tr)
Ukrainian: вражаючий (vražajučyj), чудовий (čudovyj)

wonderful (not comparable)

(dialectal) Exceedingly, to a great extent.
- 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 153:
  Miss Nancy's wonderful like what her mother was, though; isn't she, Kimble?

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