Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Remarkable or extraordinary; wonderful.
- adverb To a wonderful or remarkable extent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a kind or degree to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous; strauge.
- In a wonderful or surprising degree; remarkably; exceedingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
- adjective Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Amazing , inspiring awe, "to be marvelled at". - adverb In a wonderful degree; remarkably.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb (used as an intensifier) extremely well
- adjective extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will tell, in fact, how this strange man carried with him, in his bag, instruments that I had never seen before then, which he called his wondrous machines.
The Name of the Rose Eco, Umberto 1980
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O God, who in wondrous wise didst raise up blessed Joan for the defense of her faith and her country: grant, we beseech thee, through her intercession, that thy church, overcoming all the wiles of her enemies, may enjoy unceasing peace.
May 30 -- St Joan of Arc John 2009
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With the sale of "D is for Delicious" (which means I sold 2 out of 5 stories written in wondrous Michigan), I can declare that Clarion was, writing-wise, only a major waste of time.
mroctober: Clarion wasn't a huge waste after all... mroctober 2010
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Telling tall tales Some pretenders to glory spin wondrous yarns.
Bill Burke 12/2001 2010
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With the sale of "D is for Delicious" (which means I sold 2 out of 5 stories written in wondrous Michigan), I can declare that Clarion was, writing-wise, only a major waste of time.
Clarion wasn't a huge waste after all... mroctober 2010
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O God, who in wondrous wise didst raise up blessed Joan for the defense of her faith and her country: grant, we beseech thee, through her intercession, that thy church, overcoming all the wiles of her enemies, may enjoy unceasing peace.
May 30 -- St Joan of Arc John 2009
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God works in wondrous ways destroying the wisdom of the wise and frustrating the intelligence of the intelligent (1 Cor 1: 19).
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Tear-drops have chafed mine eyelids and rail down in wondrous wise, v. 53.
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Tear-drops have chafed mine eyelids and rail down in wondrous wise,
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Kipling has caught up in wondrous songs for the future centuries to sing.
vanishedone commented on the word wondrous
WeirdNet is wondrous strange in picking a top sense which two of the dictionary.com sources mark as archaic.
June 16, 2008