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Wondrous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Wondrous has 1 sense
- wondrous(s = adj.all) fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful - extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" Derived form noun wonder2
Adverbial Wondrous has 1 sense
- wondrous(r = adv.all) marvellously, marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrously - (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"
CIDE DICTIONARY
In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully. [1913 Webster]
"For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race,
Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place." [1913 Webster]
Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place." [1913 Webster]
"And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold." [1913 Webster]
And it grew wondrous cold." [1913 Webster]
Wondrous, a.
Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange. [1913 Webster]
"That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works."
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"Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Wondrous, adj. & adv. poet.
--adj. wonderful.
--adv. wonderfully (wondrous kind).
--adj. wonderful.
--adv. wonderfully (wondrous kind).
Derivative
wondrously adv. wondrousness n.
Etymology
alt. of obs. wonders (adj. & adv.), = genit. of WONDER (cf. -S(3)) after marvellous
THESAURUS
Wondrous
amazing, astonishing, astounding, beguiling, bewildering, bewitched, enchanted, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, magical, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, outlandish, passing strange, phenomenal, prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, spectacular, strange, striking, stupendous, surprising, thaumaturgic, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, wonder-working, wonderfulROGET THESAURUS
Wondrous
Wonder
N wonder, marvel, astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment, amazedness, admiration, awe, stupor, stupefaction, stound, fascination, sensation, surprise, note of admiration, thaumaturgy, surprised, aghast, all agog, breathless, agape, open- mouthed, awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck, spellbound, lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment, struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder, wonderful, wondrous, surprising, unexpected, unheard of, mysterious, miraculous, indescribable, inexpressible, inaffable, unutterable, unspeakable, monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous, inconceivable, incredible, inimaginable, unimaginable, strange, passing strange, striking, overwhelming, wonder-working, wonderfully fearfully, for a wonder, in the name of wonder, strange to say, mirabile dictu, mirabile visu, to one's great surprise, with wonder, with gaping mouth, with open eyes, with upturned eyes, Int, lo, lo and behold!, O!, heyday!, halloo!, what!, indeed!, really!, surely!, humph!, hem!, good lack, good heavens, good gracious!, Ye gods!, good Lord!, good grief!, Holy cow!, My word!, Holy shit!, gad so!, welladay!, dear me!, only think!, lackadaisy!, my stars, my goodness!, gracious goodness!, goodness gracious!, mercy on us!, heavens and earth!, God bless me!, bless us, bless my heart!, odzookens!, O gemini!, adzooks!, hoity-toity!, strong!, Heaven save the mark, bless the mark!, can such things be!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, what on earth, what in the world!, who would have thought it!, you don't say so!, You're kidding!, No kidding? what do you say to that!, nous verrons!, how now!, where am I?, vox faucibus haesit, one's hair standing on end.
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