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wonderful | nicely |

As an adjective wonderful

is tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.

As an adverb nicely is

(obsolete) fastidiously; carefully.

wonderful

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Alternative forms

* wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
  • * 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:
  • He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.
  • Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.
  • They served a wonderful six-course meal.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 29 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) citation , page= , passage=Though they obviously realized that these episodes were part of something wonderful and important and lasting, the writers and producers couldn’t have imagined that 20 years later “Treehouse Of Horror” wouldn’t just survive; it’d thrive as one of the most talked-about and watched episodes of every season of The Simpsons.}}

    Synonyms

    * great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * terrible, horrible

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    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
  • He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
  • Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement.
  • *1926 , (Ford Madox Ford), A Man Could Stand Up—'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 580:
  • *:An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 59:
  • Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.
  • Pleasantly; satisfactorily.