Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a wonderful manner; in a manner to excite wonder or surprise; surprisingly; strangely; remarkably: in colloquial language often nearly or quite equivalent to ‘very’: as, wonderfully little difference.
- With wonder or admiration.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a wonderful manner.
- adv. To an extent inspiring wonder.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. (used as an intensifier) extremely well
Etymologies
- wonderful + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As she read the last response to one of her test questions, the answer given by the student literally summed up the entire essence of the book in wonderfully crafted prose that left the whole class speechless.”
“In the film you see the culture shock in wonderfully small details.”
“Organized in wonderfully complex 3D fashion, we see the familiar scene with different groups of people and lots of familiar faces, who are all explained.”
“I also have not had much luck with texas style BBQ, but what it does do ... wonderfully is make smoked chicken that is perfected for smoked chicken enchiladas with sour cream sauce ...”
“They are of women gazing out windows as they stand in wonderfully beautiful rooms.”
“What it also does very wonderfully is automatically size the terminal so when I am in the smallest font size it knows how many columns to use and makes the terminal the correct width in portrait and landscape modes.”
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“Bell sets up these questions and musings in wonderfully objective (mostly) fashion.”
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“He played the violin wonderfully and was always playing for us in the evenings, I even remember his callouses (he must have played a lot).”
“From the search for a new trade route to the Orient to the race for a lunar landing, explorers have charted their journeys in wonderfully pictorial maps.”
“She tells us so much, sharing both the painful and the sweet, in wonderfully written reveries.”
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The Over-Worked "Very"
Synonyms for the word "very"
absolutely, actually, acutely, amazingly, assuredly, astonishingly, certainly, decidedly, desperately, downright, emphatically, exceedingly and 43 more...
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EN - intensifiers
vastly, deeply, dearly, awfully, truly, amply, acutely, absolutely, astonishingly, certainly, considerably, decidedly and 32 more...
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