Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a wonderful manner; in a manner to excite wonder or surprise; surprisingly; strangely; remarkably: in colloquial language often nearly or quite equivalent to ‘very’: as, wonderfully little difference.
- With wonder or admiration.
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- adverb In a
wonderful manner. - adverb To an extent inspiring wonder.
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- adverb (used as an intensifier) extremely well
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Examples
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As she read the last response to one of her test questions, the answer given by the student literally summed up the entire essence of the book in wonderfully crafted prose that left the whole class speechless.
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In the film you see the culture shock in wonderfully small details.
Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Pictures: "Exiles" in Paris -- Whole Lotta Rolling Stones Ethan Russell 2010
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Organized in wonderfully complex 3D fashion, we see the familiar scene with different groups of people and lots of familiar faces, who are all explained.
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In the film you see the culture shock in wonderfully small details.
Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Pictures: "Exiles" in Paris -- Whole Lotta Rolling Stones Ethan Russell 2010
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Bell sets up these questions and musings in wonderfully objective (mostly) fashion.
Kevin's Review: Bigger, Stronger, Faster* - A Documentary on Steroids « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I also have not had much luck with texas style BBQ, but what it does do ... wonderfully is make smoked chicken that is perfected for smoked chicken enchiladas with sour cream sauce ...
Me and my stovetop smoker | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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They are of women gazing out windows as they stand in wonderfully beautiful rooms.
Subtle Frugality 2008
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What it also does very wonderfully is automatically size the terminal so when I am in the smallest font size it knows how many columns to use and makes the terminal the correct width in portrait and landscape modes.
iPhone SSH review: iSSH v. pTerm v. TouchTerm v. SSH : #comments 2008
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He played the violin wonderfully and was always playing for us in the evenings, I even remember his callouses (he must have played a lot).
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From the search for a new trade route to the Orient to the race for a lunar landing, explorers have charted their journeys in wonderfully pictorial maps.
October 2007 2007
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