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wondrous

[wuhn-druhs]

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adjective

wonderful; remarkable.

adverb

Archaic. wonderfully; remarkably.

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Origin:
1490–1500; metathetic variant of Middle English wonders (genitive of wonder) wonderful; cognate with German Wunders; spelling conformed to -ous

Related forms

won·drous·ly, adverb

won·drous·ness, noun

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You're moving into a wondrous land where shadow often overshadows substance.

Take a fascinating journey through the wondrous inner world of the human body.

Illusions push the mysterious and wondrous brain into revealing its secrets.

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You're moving into a wondrous land where shadow often overshadows substance.

Take a fascinating journey through the wondrous inner world of the human body.

Illusions push the mysterious and wondrous brain into revealing its secrets.

People are drawn to futurism for the wondrous spectacle of it all.

Thought to optimize levels of dopamine and norepinephrine, enhancing concentration and turning mundane tasks into wondrous ones.

Arneson could explore a wondrous variety of conceptual and expressive concerns.

To this day the catacombs include a wondrous variety of human-made features.

Quantum computers can do wondrous things: too bad they do not exist yet.

For all, the search is as wondrous as the discoveries themselves.

Suffice it to say the electric car was a wondrous machine and a technological marvel.

In no time, the stage is filled with figures, or rather with creatures wearing a wondrous series of animal headdresses and masks.

They are places so wondrous that they inspire artists and poets, so captivating that they were declared national parks.

The penis is a wondrous hydraulic mechanism that functions to create pleasure to both the male and his partner.

For a really sick twist, make their reality more wondrous and vital.

All these sheerly theatrical elements still are present, and are reason enough to recommend this wondrous show.

Even small creatures can be objects of awe in this wild and wondrous domain.

Fandom is a strange and wondrous thing, mostly because of the undeniable spark it adds to everyday life.

Takeout coolers and a shelf of growlers are clue to a wondrous beer collection.

Children take a wondrous tour of the ocean and encounter the animal babies who live there in this stunning.

Then he'll enter the wondrous world of hearing and playing music as the great composers intended.

Travel with us to this wondrous destination right from your iPad or phone.

Spahn's mind works in wondrous ways when it comes to filing, and none of the ways include accepted logic.

Let's work to be responsible stewards of the breathtaking and wondrous life that still exists on our shared planet.

Waves of gold make a wondrous backdrop for the starry clumps of blue and white.

Pierson's wondrous polyurethane-foam creation, which she scales occasionally, might be called design on the rocks with a twist.

The physicality and skill of the dancers is truly wondrous to watch.

We have accomplished the wondrous feat of paying our bills and still creating a crisis of confidence.

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World English Dictionary

wondrous (ˈwʌndrəs)

—*adj*
1.	exciting wonder; marvellous

—*adv*
2.	(intensifier): it is wondrous cold

'wondrously

—*adv*

'wondrousness

—n

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Word Origin & History

wondrous

c.1500, from M.E. wonders (adj.), c.1300, originally gen. of wonder (n.), with suffix altered by influence of marvelous, etc.

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"Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress."

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