wonderer

1 7.5

A person who looks at things with surprise and interest

noun
/ˈwʌndərər/

: maravillador

Being a natural wonderer, she often explored new places and gathered stories from different cultures.

Examples

That is, as they leave classrooms and schools, we hope for children to feel inspired to follow their own lines of inquiry, to move into and through the world as wonderers and learners.

Academic text (2013)
The young boy was a true wonderer, fascinated by the smallest details of nature around him.
Wonderer, Marc Malone, et al. are not wasted words; they are merely wasted upon Josh.

Blog text (3)
For Sagan, human beings are wanderers and wonderers by nature.

Academic text (1999)
Binx Bolling, the protagonist of Percy's first published novel, The Moviegoer, calls himself both a wonderer and a wanderer.

Academic text (1999)
As a child, I was always a wonderer, gazing at the stars and asking questions about the universe.

Synonyms

marveller

vswonderer

8.2

A person who feels surprise and admiration for something beautiful or amazing

also involves curiosity and desire to learn beyond admiration

Antonyms

cynic

43 5.8

A person who thinks people act only to help themselves

How Curious

inquirer

5 3.2

wonderer

1 7.5

observer

265 2.8

bystander

79 3.4

Surface Forms

wonderer singular

wonderers plural

Morphology

wonderer = wonder (transparent) = wonder + er

Formed by attaching the productive agentive suffix '-er' to 'wonder', yielding 'one who wonders', which is directly predictable.

Etymology

Wonderer comes from the word wonder, which originally meant a 'marvel' or something amazing and appears in familiar words like wonderful. So a wonderer is someone who looks at the world with surprise and curiosity, always ready to say 'wow'.