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WONDROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wondrously mean? 

WONDROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb WONDROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. (used as an intensifier) extremely wellplay

  Familiarity information: WONDROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WONDROUSLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(used as an intensifier) extremely well

Synonyms:

marvellously; marvelously; superbly; terrifically; toppingly; wonderfully; wondrous; wondrously

Context example:

the colors changed wondrously slowly

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

Pertainym:

wondrous (extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers)


 Context examples 


So the throng moved on, until at the very gate it was brought to a stand by a wondrously fat man, who came darting forth from the town with rage in every feature of his rubicund face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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