Related Searches
on Ask.com
Synonyms
wondrous - 5 dictionary results
won⋅drous
[wuhn-druh
s] 
–adjective
| 1. | wonderful; remarkable. |
–adverb
| 2. | Archaic. wonderfully; remarkably. |
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source
|
Link To wondrous
| won·drous (wŭn'drəs) adj. Remarkable or extraordinary; wonderful. adv. Archaic To a wonderful or remarkable extent. won'drous·ly adv., won'drous·ness n. |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Wondrous
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.Wondrous
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Language Translation for : wondrous
Spanish:
maravilloso,
German:
wundersam,
Japanese:
すばらしい
wondrous
c.1500, from M.E. wonders (adj.), c.1300, originally gen. of wonder (n.), with suffix altered by influence of marvelous, etc.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
