Wondrous

CIDE DICTIONARY

Wondrous, adv. [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.). See Wonder, n., and cf. -wards.].

 In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.  [1913 Webster]
"For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race,
Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place."  [1913 Webster]
"And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold."  [1913 Webster]

Wondrous, a. 

 Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.  [1913 Webster]
"That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works."  [1913 Webster]
"Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Wondrous, adj. & adv. poet.
--adj. wonderful.
--adv. wonderfully (wondrous kind).

Derivative

wondrously adv. wondrousness n.

Etymology

alt. of obs. wonders (adj. & adv.), = genit. of WONDER (cf. -S(3)) after marvellous

THESAURUS

Wondrous

amazing, astonishing, astounding, beguiling, bewildering, bewitched, enchanted, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, magical, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, outlandish, passing strange, phenomenal, prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, spectacular, strange, striking, stupendous, surprising, thaumaturgic, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, wonder-working, wonderful

ROGET THESAURUS

Wondrous

Wonder

N wonder, marvel, astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment, amazedness, admiration, awe, stupor, stupefaction, stound, fascination, sensation, surprise, note of admiration, thaumaturgy, surprised, aghast, all agog, breathless, agape, open- mouthed, awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck, spellbound, lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment, struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder, wonderful, wondrous, surprising, unexpected, unheard of, mysterious, miraculous, indescribable, inexpressible, inaffable, unutterable, unspeakable, monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous, inconceivable, incredible, inimaginable, unimaginable, strange, passing strange, striking, overwhelming, wonder-working, wonderfully fearfully, for a wonder, in the name of wonder, strange to say, mirabile dictu, mirabile visu, to one's great surprise, with wonder, with gaping mouth, with open eyes, with upturned eyes, Int, lo, lo and behold!, O!, heyday!, halloo!, what!, indeed!, really!, surely!, humph!, hem!, good lack, good heavens, good gracious!, Ye gods!, good Lord!, good grief!, Holy cow!, My word!, Holy shit!, gad so!, welladay!, dear me!, only think!, lackadaisy!, my stars, my goodness!, gracious goodness!, goodness gracious!, mercy on us!, heavens and earth!, God bless me!, bless us, bless my heart!, odzookens!, O gemini!, adzooks!, hoity-toity!, strong!, Heaven save the mark, bless the mark!, can such things be!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, what on earth, what in the world!, who would have thought it!, you don't say so!, You're kidding!, No kidding? what do you say to that!, nous verrons!, how now!, where am I?, vox faucibus haesit, one's hair standing on end.