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# wonderful

adjective (wonderful); adverb wonderfully

«wonderful» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Wonderful means very good, very nice or enjoyable: a wonderful day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#m1)
2. Wonderful means causing wonder, surprising and amazing: the wonderful world of nature. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#m2)
3. (ironic) «Oh, wonderful» can be said in a cross voice when something goes badly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#m3)

### In the lessons

Very common in everyday talk, stories and letters to praise things and people. In science and nature lessons, it shows amazement at the natural world. Phrases: a wonderful time, wonderful news, what a wonderful idea, wonderfully kind.

### Examples

- We had a wonderful time at the seaside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x1)
- What wonderful news! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x2)
- You did a wonderful job on your painting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x3)
- The rainforest is full of wonderful creatures. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x4)
- She is wonderfully kind to everyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x5)
- It's raining on sports day. Oh, wonderful, said Dad crossly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x6)
- It was really a wonderful light. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/#x7)

### Note

Spelling: one l at the end — wonderful, not «wonderfull». Similar: marvellous (UK) / marvelous (US), fantastic, brilliant (UK), awesome (US). It is an adjective; don't say «she sings wonderful» — say «she sings wonderfully».

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it can mean extraordinary and terrible, as in "wonderful plagues". In Sefer Yetzirah it means marvellous.

**Interpretation.** In Sefer Yetzirah the "thirty-two wonderful paths of wisdom" are the ten numbers and twenty-two letters through which God made the world.

### Examples

- then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. (Torah DEU.28.59, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wonderful/#x1)
- In two and thirty most occult and wonderful paths of wisdom did JAH the Lord of Hosts engrave his name: God of the armies of Israel, ever-living God, merciful and gracious, sublime, dwelling on high, who inhabiteth eternity. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wonderful/#x2)
- According to liim God created the universe with thirty -two wonderful ways of wisdom. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wonderful/#x3)
- Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore doth my soul keep them. (Writings PSA.119.129, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wonderful/#x4)
- Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; too high, I cannot attain unto it. (Writings PSA.139.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wonderful/#x5)
- There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: (Writings PRO.30.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wonderful/#x6)

### Note

Spelling: one l at the end — wonderful, not «wonderfull». Similar: marvellous (UK) / marvelous (US), fantastic, brilliant (UK), awesome (US). It is an adjective; don't say «she sings wonderful» — say «she sings wonderfully».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «wonderful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«wonderful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/wonderful.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «wonderful» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/wonderful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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