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ˈwʌn drəswon·drous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrousadverb

    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"

  2. wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelouslyadverb

    (used as an intensifier) extremely well

    "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"

Wiktionary

  1. wondrousadjective

    Amazing, inspiring awe, "to be marvelled at".

    We all stared open mouthed at the wondrous sight, speechless.

  2. Etymology: From Late wondrous, metathetic variation of wonders, genitive of wonder, from wundor, from wundran. Compare wonders, Wunder.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wondrousnoun

    in a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully

  2. Wondrousadjective

    wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange

  3. Etymology: [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.). See Wonder, n., and cf. -wards.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wondrous in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wondrous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of wondrous in a Sentence

  1. Jo Malcomson:

    It was very much like entering into a magical wonderland. It's a childlike wondrous experience, which completely absorbs one's attention and captures one's imagination.

  2. RVM:

    Far more wondrous than the wonders of the world are wonders of the human body . . . the Eyes, the Ears, the Nose, the Mouth, the Hands, the Head and the Heart.

  3. Real Live Preacher:

    The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

  4. Cometan:

    Wouldn’t it just be a wondrous thing if our universe within another universe…oh, how insignificant we are.

  5. Gene Roddenberry:

    You, The audience, furnish it's propulsion. With a wondrous leap of imagination, you make it into a real spaceship that can take us into the far reaches of the galaxy and sometimes even to the depths of the human soul.

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  • verwunderlich, erstaunlich, wundersamGerman
  • vaikuttava, ihmeellinenFinnish
  • merveilleuxFrench
  • csodálatosHungarian
  • meravigliosoItalian
  • נִפלָאHebrew
  • 素晴らしきJapanese
  • საუცხოო, სასწაულებრივიGeorgian
  • underfull, vidunderligNorwegian
  • чудесный, дивный, невиданный, удивительно, изумительный, поразительный, удивительныйRussian
  • 奇妙的Chinese

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