wonderfully
adv/wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/
Etymology From Middle English wonderfully, wunderfullie, wonderfulliche, equivalent to wonderful + -ly.
› In a wonderful manner.
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In an excellent manner.
- He entertained us wonderfully.
- We're so wonderfully, wonderfully / Wonderfully, wonderfully pretty1983, Robert Smith, “The Lovecats”, performed by The Cure:
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- By freeing statisticians from dealing with complicated calculations, the statistical aspects of a problem can become the main focus. This point is wonderfully illustrated by Smith and Gelfand (1992).1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174
- “Tacoma has a wonderfully local and real vibe versus some anonymity that can occur in bigger cities,” she says.2024 June 23, Corinne Whiting, quoting Kathy Conn, “The dazzling sides of ‘Grit City’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
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To an extent inspiring wonder.
- On a clear night, the Montana sky is wonderfully vast and full of stars.
- It was wonderfully stormy and dark on the night when the ship went down.
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- Although this run was made on Whitsun-Tuesday, and the traffic into London was heavy from all directions, we got a wonderfully clear road and apart from one slight check at Herne Hill were entirely undelayed.1959 October 23, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 705: