WONDROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wondrous mean? 

• WONDROUS (adjective)
  The adjective WONDROUS has 1 sense:

1. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

  Familiarity information: WONDROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

• WONDROUS (adverb)
  The adverb WONDROUS has 1 sense:

1. (used as an intensifier) extremely well

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WONDROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

Synonyms:

fantastic; grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous

Context example:

a tremendous achievement

Similar:

extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)

Derivation:

wonder (something that causes feelings of wonder)

• WONDROUS (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)

 Context examples 

Alleyne smiled as he wondered what fantastic and wondrous deed would be exacted from him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can assure you that the country air has used you wondrous well, and that I should be proud to see my pretty sister in the Mall.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then the man in the tree answered, Lift up thine eyes, for behold here I sit in the sack of wisdom; here have I, in a short time, learned great and wondrous things.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The corroboration of these wondrous tales was really of the most slender description.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With this one, all the forces of nature that are occult and deep and strong must have worked together in some wondrous way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All that is happening is shaping your future in a wondrous way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I know she considers the Rochester estate eligible to the last degree; though (God pardon me!) I told her something on that point about an hour ago which made her look wondrous grave: the corners of her mouth fell half an inch.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So I have heard, remarked the Brabanter; and yet it is a strange thing that these wondrous bowmen are never where I chance to be.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)