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WONDERFULLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used as an intensifier) extremely well

Example:

the colors changed wondrously slowly

Synonyms:

marvellously; marvelously; superbly; terrifically; toppingly; wonderfully; wondrous; wondrously

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

Pertainym:

wonderful (extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers)

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 Context examples: 

By slow degrees he recovered and ate a little soup, which restored him wonderfully.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

With his savage eyes and bristling moustache he was wonderfully like a tiger himself.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores—the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I sing a song, and thanks to the magazine editors I transmute my song into a waft of the west wind sighing through our redwoods, into a murmur of waters over mossy stones that sings back to me another song than the one I sang and yet the same song wonderfully—er—transmuted.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

’Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have really done very well indeed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and, to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I had a letter from Arthur, written on Sunday, and from it I gather that he is bearing up wonderfully well.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I declare,” said my mother, gently, “they are exactly alike. I suppose they are mine. I think they are the colour of mine. But they are wonderfully alike.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And now the matter had begun to straighten itself out wonderfully.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You see, I mistrust you still, though you have borne up wonderfully so far.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)