wonderfully

From Middle English wonderfully, wunderfullie, wonderfulliche, equivalent to wonderful +‎ -ly.

• IPA^(key): /wʌn.də(ɹ).fli/

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wonderfully (comparative more wonderfully, superlative most wonderfully)

1. In a wonderful manner.
   1. In an excellent manner.

      He entertained us wonderfully.

      • 1983, Robert Smith, “The Lovecats”, performed by The Cure:

        We're so wonderfully, wonderfully / Wonderfully, wonderfully pretty

      • 1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174

        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).

      • 2024 June 23, Corinne Whiting, quoting Kathy Conn, “The dazzling sides of ‘Grit City’”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 October 2024:

        “Tacoma has a wonderfully local and real vibe versus some anonymity that can occur in bigger cities,” she says.

   2. To an extent inspiring wonder.

      Synonym: wondrously

      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.

      • 1959 October, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:

        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.

• wunderfullie, wonderfulliche

wonderful +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /ˈwundərfuliː/

wonderfully

1. miraculously; extraordinarily; unnaturally

• English: wonderfully
• Yola: wonderfullee

• “wǒnderfullī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.