Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeling or expressing awe, admiration, amazement, or surprise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Expressing admiration or amazement; marveling.
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- verb Present participle of
wonder . - noun The mental activity by which one
wonders ; a query, puzzlement, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing curiosity
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Examples
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The page took awhile to come up and I was there staring at the title wondering which attack this was going to be about.
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Hey Jim, I have to agree with LJ, I don't think "wondering" is addressing his question specifically to you.
peso? 1919
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What I AM wondering is if anyone who got THE DEVIL YOU KNOW has the same issues as this person??
Just a week to go! p_n_elrod 2009
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But the black had eyes only for Jerry, staring at him in wondering amaze until he pieced the situation together in his growing clarity of brain and realized that such a small chunky animal had spoiled his game.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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What I'm wondering is does human culture seek a certain amount of stability over growth and will adopt a certain level of economic fallacies to maintain that?
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What I'm wondering is how many of you are interested in ordering?
Books, books, books! (Okay, just TWO) p_n_elrod 2009
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We were wondering is there a time limit on how long one game of the pool can last.
Archive 2009-04-01 Darwi 2009
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Things are too slow at the moment to really test things out properly (so this question might be irrelevant); but what I have been wondering from the start is:
FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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We were wondering is there a time limit on how long one game of the pool can last.
American version of the girly night Darwi 2009
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Elsewhere, Damon Lindelof, joined most of the Twitterverse in wondering about Apple's new tablet release, which is expected to be unveiled tomorrow.
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