Meaning of WONDROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'wundrus
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- [adv] (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"
- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | extraordinary, fantastic, howling(a), marvellous, marvellously, marvelous, marvelously, rattling(a), superbly, terrific, terrifically, toppingly, tremendous, wonderful, wonderfully, wondrously |
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\Won"drous\, adv. [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.).
See {Wonder}, n., and cf. {-wards}.]
In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as
when women, wondrous fond of place. --Pope.
And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew
wondrous cold. --Coleridge.
\Won"drous\, a.
Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite
surprise and astonishment; strange.
That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. --Ps.
xxvi. 7.
-- {Won"drous*ly}, adv. -- {Won"drous*ness}, n.
Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved.
--Granville.
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