wonderfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwʌn.də.fl̩/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwʌn.dɚ.fl̩/

形容詞

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

1. 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.

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.

   • 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 または journal name)‎^[1]:

     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.

同意語

• (excellent, extremely impressive): great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint
• See also Thesaurus:wonderful
• See also Thesaurus:excellent

反意語

• (excellent, extremely impressive): terrible, horrible

副詞

wonderful (not comparable)

1. (dialect) 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?

   • 1975, Rennie Ellis, Australian Graffiti:

     [graffito] WANTED BIG COCK TO SHARE MY WIFE. SHE HAS BIG TITS AND [EXPLETIVE] WONDERFUL. TOO MUCH FOR ME MAN.