wonderly

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adjective

wondrous; wondersome

OriginMiddle English wonderly ← Old English wundorlīċ ← Proto-West Germanic *wundralīk →
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Meanings

wonderly1

adjectivewonderly (comparative more wonderly, superlative most wonderly)

comparative more wonderly · superlative most wonderly

  1. archaicwondrous; wondersome

    The king sent his hunters over, they should see, what kind of animal was set in the tree, they came back and said: there lay such a wonderly animal therein, as they hade ^([sic]) never seen in their life days, raw work of all kinds were on its skin, but it lay and slept.

    1812, 2014, Oliver Loo, The Original Grimm KHM 1812, page 330

wonderly2

adverbwonderly (comparative more wonderly, superlative most wonderly)

comparative more wonderly · superlative most wonderly

  1. archaicWonderfully, in a wonderful manner.
  2. archaicTo a wonderful degree, exceedingly.

Wonderly3

proper nounWonderly (plural Wonderlys)

plural Wonderlys

  1. A surname.

Origin

wonderly · adjective

  1. Proto-Germanic*wundralīkaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*wundralīk
  3. Old Englishwundorlīċ“wonderful, miraculous”
  4. Middle Englishwonderly
  5. Englishwonderly

From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderlich, from Old English wundorlīċ (“wonderful, miraculous”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundralīk, from Proto-Germanic *wundralīkaz, equivalent to wonder + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wunderelk, wunnerelk, West Frisian wûnderlik, Dutch wonderlijk, German Low German wunnerlik, German wunderlich, Swedish underlig, Icelandic undarlegur.

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wonderly · adverb

  1. Old Englishwundorlīċe
  2. Middle Englishwonderly
  3. Englishwonderly

From Middle English wonderly, wonderli, wonderliche, from Old English wundorlīċe, equivalent to wonder + -ly.

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APA

wonderly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wonderly

MLA

“wonderly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wonderly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wonderly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wonderly.

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