wonderful

adj

1. Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

   “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; […]”

   “He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.”

2. Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

   “They served a wonderful six-course meal.”

   “What appears to be wonderful may turn out to be anything but.”

   “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.”

adv

1. (dialectal, not-comparable)Exceedingly, to a great extent.

   “[…] wherein they were no sooner entered, but they saw that it was wonderful dark, and it seemed unto them that it should be a very large hall, and there they heard very fearful howlings, as though there had been a legion of hell-hounds […]”

   “It was wonderful stormy weather that night, and it so befell that there was sailing by the Jutland coast a little north of the east mouth of the Limfirth a man of Iceland bound south […]”