Wondrous

//ˈwʌndɹəs// adj, adv

adj, adv ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.

    "We all stared open-mouthed at the wondrous sight."

Adjective
  1. 1
    extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    In a wonderful degree; remarkably; wondrously.

    "And looking vp, when as his shield he lakt, / And sword saw not, he wexed wondrous woe"

Adverb
  1. 1
    (used as an intensifier) excellently wordnet

Synonyms

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fantasticacceptableacutelyamazingamazingamply

Example

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"I absolutely love going to concerts not just because I get a chance to meet the musician or singer but because of the wondrous feeling of a live performance."

Etymology

From Middle English wondrous, alteration after the suffix -ous of Middle English wonders (“wondrous, wonderful”, adjective), from Old English wundres (“of wonder”), genitive singular of wundor (“wonder, miracle”), from Proto-Germanic *wundrą (“wonder”). Compare Dutch wonder, German Wunder.

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