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WONDROUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
Example:
a tremendous achievement
Synonyms:
fantastic; grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous
Classified under:
Similar:
extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)
Derivation:
wonder (something that causes feelings of wonder)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used as an intensifier) extremely well
Example:
the colors changed wondrously slowly
Synonyms:
marvellously; marvelously; superbly; terrifically; toppingly; wonderfully; wondrous; wondrously
Classified under:
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Context examples:
At least I have been driven forth to take part in a wondrous adventure, and I cannot but be thankful to the force that drove me.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The wondrous shock of feeling had come like the earthquake which shook the foundations of Paul and Silas's prison; it had opened the doors of the soul's cell and loosed its bands—it had wakened it out of its sleep, whence it sprang trembling, listening, aghast; then vibrated thrice a cry on my startled ear, and in my quaking heart and through my spirit, which neither feared nor shook, but exulted as if in joy over the success of one effort it had been privileged to make, independent of the cumbrous body.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Edricson, I see that you stare about you, and in good sooth these mountains must seem wondrous indeed to one who hath but seen Butser or the Portsdown hill.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Some day, when I have a better desk than a meat-tin and more helpful tools than a worn stub of pencil and a last, tattered note-book, I will write some fuller account of the Accala Indians—of our life amongst them, and of the glimpses which we had of the strange conditions of wondrous Maple White Land.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is a wondrous large and strong man, with no ruth for man, woman, or beast.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent for ever.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
When the time comes I will describe that wondrous moonlit night upon the great lake when a young ichthyosaurus—a strange creature, half seal, half fish, to look at, with bone-covered eyes on each side of his snout, and a third eye fixed upon the top of his head—was entangled in an Indian net, and nearly upset our canoe before we towed it ashore; the same night that a green water-snake shot out from the rushes and carried off in its coils the steersman of Challenger's canoe.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Holy father, I hand you twelve florins, which is all that we can give, though we well know how poor a pay it is for the wondrous things which you sell us.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
