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wondrous

won·drous

wondrous · more wondrous · most wondrous

великий

чудесный, удивительный, дивный, изумительный

wunderbar, erstaunlich, verwunderlich, wundersam

Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelousWonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.

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/ˈwʌndɹəs/

» Everything was bathed in a wondrous blue light.

Meaning

1 senses

Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.
We all stared open-mouthed at the wondrous sight.
wunderbar, wundersam, erstaunlich
изуми́тельныйizumítelʹnyj, порази́тельныйporazítelʹnyj, удиви́тельныйudivítelʹnyj

More definitions

extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

Examples

7 sentences

Everything was bathed in a wondrous blue light.
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Occasionally, wondrous texts were included.
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It's a story full of gnomes, elves, fairies, and other similar wondrous characters.
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The holiday season is a wondrous time of year when people are reunited with their racist family members.
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The large, lonely plain, covered with snow, looked even more wondrous in the moonlight than during the day.
deIm Licht des Mondes sah die große, jetzt einsame, schneebedeckte Ebene noch wundersamer aus als am Tag.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

amazing, inspiring awe:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

amazing, inspiring awe:

Origin

From Middle English wondrous, alteration after the suffix -ous of Middle English wonders (

From Middle English wondrous, alteration after the suffix -ous of Middle English wonders (“wondrous, wonderful”, adjective), from Old English wundres (“of wonder”), genitive singular of wundor (“wonder, miracle”), from Proto-Germanic *wundrą (“wonder”). Compare Dutch wonder, German Wunder.

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