WONDROUS

fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous

(adjective) extraordinarily good or great; 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”

wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously

(adverb) (used as an intensifier) extremely well; “her voice is superbly disciplined”; “the colors changed wondrously slowly”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

wondrous (comparative more wondrous, superlative most wondrous)

Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.

Synonyms

• See awesome

Adverb

wondrous (comparative more wondrous, superlative most wondrous)

In a wonderful degree; remarkably; wondrously.

Source: Wiktionary


Won"drous, adv. Etym: [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.). See Wonder, n., and cf. -wards.]

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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