WONDERFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wonderfully mean? 

• WONDERFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb WONDERFULLY has 1 sense:

1. (used as an intensifier) extremely well

  Familiarity information: WONDERFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WONDERFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used as an intensifier) extremely well

Synonyms:

marvellously; marvelously; superbly; terrifically; toppingly; wonderfully; wondrous; wondrously

Context example:

the colors changed wondrously slowly

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

Pertainym:

wonderful (extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers)

 Context examples 

It was a wonderfully silent house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You have followed me wonderfully!” I exclaimed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How wonderfully these sort of things occur!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He certainly is a wonderfully interesting study.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was wonderfully relieved to find that my aunt and Dora's aunts rubbed on, all things considered, much more smoothly than I could have expected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Not that he is much to speak of now,” Wolf Larsen went on, but he has improved wonderfully.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Softened into crayon sketches, they did better, for the likenesses were good, and Amy's hair, Jo's nose, Meg's mouth, and Laurie's eyes were pronounced 'wonderfully fine'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, is but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The manuscript so wonderfully found, so wonderfully accomplishing the morning's prediction, how was it to be accounted for?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And upon the whole, it would certainly have gone off wonderfully.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)