Wondrous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
wondrous
    adv 1: (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is
           superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously
           slowly" [syn: {wonderfully}, {wondrous}, {wondrously},
           {superbly}, {toppingly}, {marvellously}, {terrifically},
           {marvelously}]
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           {fantastic}, {grand}, {howling(a)}, {marvelous},
           {marvellous}, {rattling(a)}, {terrific}, {tremendous},
           {wonderful}, {wondrous}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race,
         Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. --Pope.
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         And now there came both mist and snow,
         And it grew wondrous cold.               --Coleridge.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wondrous \Won"drous\, a.
   Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite
   surprise and astonishment; strange.
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         That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. --Ps.
                                                  xxvi. 7.
   [1913 Webster] -- {Won"drous*ly}, adv. -- {Won"drous*ness},
   n.
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         Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved.
                                                  --Granville.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "wondrous":
      amazing, astonishing, astounding, beguiling, bewildering,
      bewitched, enchanted, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary,
      fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, incomprehensible, inconceivable,
      incredible, magical, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic,
      outlandish, passing strange, phenomenal, prodigious, puzzling,
      rare, remarkable, sensational, spectacular, strange, striking,
      stupendous, surprising, thaumaturgic, unheard-of, unimaginable,
      unique, unprecedented, wonder-working, wonderful

    

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