wondrous
54
5.8
- adjective
- /ˈwʌndrəs/
- Her wondrous talent for painting captivated everyone at the art exhibition.
- truly wondrous
- a wondrous journey
- a wondrous world
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- So every time I achieve something, it was just wondrous to me.
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- He called it at that time the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind.
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Examples
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Yet she was smiling, recalling her wondrous memory of forty years ago.
Fiction book (1993) -
The view from the mountaintop was utterly wondrous, leaving us speechless and in awe.
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That is the the wondrous thing about these plants.
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So every time I achieve something, it was just wondrous to me.
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New York was my connection to everything new and wondrous in the arts.
Academic text (1998) -
We human beings are a strange and wondrous and terrible species.
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Just look at these photographs; you know something wondrous is going on in them.
Fiction book (1991) -
There is something wondrous about the human capacity for identification and allegiance toward fictional characters.
Academic text (2017) -
By attentively listening to his patients, he discovered how strange, wondrous, and courageous most people are.
Academic text (1997) -
Little Big Planet is a wide, wondrous world, the denizens of which are always on the move, playing, collecting, adventuring.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very good and likely to make you feel happy or amazed
∞
1.0
Causing great surprise and admiration
∞
3.5
Very surprising or hard to believe
891
1.9
Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased
671
3.0
Very large or impressive
650
3.3
Very strong and often causing great damage
591
2.8
Unusual and easy to notice because it is different or surprising
569
3.0
Impressive and large in appearance or style
289
3.5
Very impressive and exciting to look at
288
3.9
Very impressive and beautiful in appearance or style
215
1.8
Very good and surprising in a way that pleases people
136
5.4
Very impressive and much better than normal
135
3.4
Very surprising and making you feel great wonder
97
5.3
Very large and surprising in a way that shocks you
94
4.3
Very surprising and lucky in a way people cannot explain
92
4.1
So surprising and impressive that you feel amazed
70
3.5
A very beautiful and surprising sight that amazes you
27
4.1
Very good and impressive
20
6.7
Very large or impressive in a way that amazes people
19
7.5
Very large or impressive in a way that surprises people
18
5.6
Causes people to feel great respect and wonder because it is very impressive
4
9.9
Very beautiful and impressive, like at a big party
3
5.2
Shows great success and impresses many people
3
4.2
So surprising that it seems hard to believe
1
5.5
Very impressive and much better than you expect
1
7.5
Very beautiful and impressive to look at
Antonyms
How Wonderful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wondrous comes from the simple word wonder, which meant 'marvel' or 'miracle', plus the ending -ous which means 'full of'. So wondrous means 'full of wonder', which is why we use it for something very impressive or amazing.