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wondrous |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wondrous 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" [syn: {fantastic}, {howling(a)}, {marvelous}, {rattling(a)}, {terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful}] adv : (used as an intensifier) extremely well "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly" [syn: {wonderfully}, {wondrously}, {superbly}, {toppingly}, {marvellously}, {terrifically}, {marvelously}]
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