wondrous
/ˈwʌndrəs
/adjective literary
Inspiring a feeling of wonder or delight; marvellous: this wondrous city...
- Most imagine a wondrous city or a verdant garden where human beings come face to face with God.
- Spring is a wondrous time full of marvelous sights, sounds and smells.
- Magic town is a wondrous land where all sorts of glorious and spellbinding things take place.
adverb [as submodifier] archaic
Marvellously; wonderfully: she is grown wondrous pretty
Derivatives
wondrously
/ adverb ...- When the first stage of this project was completed, (along a different route) strange stories began to be circulated by the media and alleged actual users, of how wondrously clean and sleek and efficient and punctual it was.
- I do feel slightly guilty about it, but wondrously grateful.
- The life of a single human being is so wondrously mysterious and so incredibly complicated; how infinitely more complicated is the network of relationships that go to make up a ‘democracy’.
wondrousness
- He was a celebrated figure in Oxford, having, I don't know, got numerous degrees and acclaim for his writing, intelligence, and general wondrousness.
- Like, they can't find anyone else online to revel in the wondrousness that is them, so they start up a conversation with you, tell you their news, then head off?
- The wondrousness of these poems derives not just from their ‘plot’ twists but from their language.
Origin
Late 15th century: alteration of obsolete wonders (adjective and adverb), genitive of wonder, on the pattern of marvellous.
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