Wondrous

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wondrous \Won"drous\, adv. [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.).
     See {Wonder}, n., and cf. {-wards}.]
     In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
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           For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race,


           Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. --Pope.
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           And now there came both mist and snow,
           And it grew wondrous cold.               --Coleridge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wondrous \Won"drous\, a.
     Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite
     surprise and astonishment; strange.
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           That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. --Ps.
                                                    xxvi. 7.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Won"drous*ly}, adv. -- {Won"drous*ness},
     n.
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           Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved.
                                                    --Granville.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wondrous
       adj : extraordinarily good; 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" [syn: {fantastic},
              {howling(a)}, {marvelous}, {marvellous}, {rattling(a)},
              {terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful}]
       adv : (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is
             superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously
             slowly" [syn: {wonderfully}, {wondrously}, {superbly},
             {toppingly}, {marvellously}, {terrifically}, {marvelously}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wonderful