wondrous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
    fantastic; marvelous; marvellous; grand; terrific; howling; wonderful; rattling; tremendous.
    • a fantastic trip to the Orient
    • the film was fantastic!
    • a howling success
    • a marvelous collection of rare books
    • had a rattling conversation about politics
    • a tremendous achievement
  2. adverb (used as an intensifier) extremely well
    wondrously; marvellously; terrifically; superbly; toppingly; wonderfully; marvelously.
    • her voice is superbly disciplined
    • the colors changed wondrously slowly

WordNet

Won"drous adverb
Etymology
OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.). See Wonder, n., and cf. -wards.
Definitions
  1. In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.
    For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place. Pope.
    And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.
Won"drous adjective
Definitions
  1. Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.
    That I may . . . tell of all thy wondrous works. Ps. xxvi. 7.
    -- Won"drous*ly, adv. -- Won"drous*ness, n.
    Chloe complains, and wondrously's aggrieved. Granville.

Webster 1913