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Definition of wondrous in English: wondrousadjective ˈwʌndrəsˈwəndrəs literary Inspiring a feeling of wonder or delight; marvellous. 〈诗/文〉令人惊奇的;使人高兴的;奇妙的 这个令人惊叹的城市。 Example sentencesExamples - Most imagine a wondrous city or a verdant garden where human beings come face to face with God.
- Magic town is a wondrous land where all sorts of glorious and spellbinding things take place.
- Spring is a wondrous time full of marvelous sights, sounds and smells.
- Over the past few days I have seen the most amazing and wondrous sight.
- Back before any of us were here on earth, Ira Gershwin was writing divine, clever and wondrous lyrics for another age.
Synonyms marvellous, magnificent, superb, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate
adverb ˈwʌndrəsˈwəndrəs archaic as submodifier Marvellously; wonderfully. 〈古〉出奇地;极其,非常 she is grown wondrous pretty 她出落得美丽无比。
Derivativesadverb ˈwʌndrəsliˈwəndrəsli Under her blue mantle, embroidered in gold like her halo and the wondrously rendered transparency of her multifold veil, she wears a white-trimmed gown of pink, a little richer in colour than the thornless roses that surround her. Example sentencesExamples - The traffic that teems around the base of the hotel is rendered wondrously inaudible by the double glazing, the walls are thick, and the air conditioners do not rouse themselves to more than a gentle buzz even at full blast.
- When the first stage of this project was completed, (along a different route) strange stories began to be circulated by the media and alleged actual users, of how wondrously clean and sleek and efficient and punctual it was.
- The life of a single human being is so wondrously mysterious and so incredibly complicated; how infinitely more complicated is the network of relationships that go to make up a ‘democracy’.
- I do feel slightly guilty about it, but wondrously grateful.
nounˈwʌndrəsnəsˈwəndrəsnəs Like, they can't find anyone else online to revel in the wondrousness that is them, so they start up a conversation with you, tell you their news, then head off? Example sentencesExamples - Instead, she wrote a bloody touchy-feely thing about the wondrousness of it all and how good it is for the human spirit!
- For all his previous boasts about the innate wondrousness of his various projects, a surprising honesty and integrity is evident in his stark definition of his remaining objectives.
- Dyke appears to be so consumed with his own wondrousness that he is unable to understand basic human decency.
- The wondrousness of these poems derives not just from their ‘plot’ twists but from their language.
- He was a celebrated figure in Oxford, having, I don't know, got numerous degrees and acclaim for his writing, intelligence, and general wondrousness.
OriginLate 15th century: alteration of obsolete wonders (adjective and adverb), genitive of wonder, on the pattern of marvellous. Definition of wondrous in US English: wondrousadjectiveˈwəndrəsˈwəndrəs literary Inspiring a feeling of wonder or delight; marvelous. 〈诗/文〉令人惊奇的;使人高兴的;奇妙的 这个令人惊叹的城市。 Example sentencesExamples - Back before any of us were here on earth, Ira Gershwin was writing divine, clever and wondrous lyrics for another age.
- Spring is a wondrous time full of marvelous sights, sounds and smells.
- Most imagine a wondrous city or a verdant garden where human beings come face to face with God.
- Magic town is a wondrous land where all sorts of glorious and spellbinding things take place.
- Over the past few days I have seen the most amazing and wondrous sight.
Synonyms marvellous, magnificent, superb, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, first-class, first-rate
adverbˈwəndrəsˈwəndrəs archaic as submodifier Marvelously; wonderfully. 〈古〉出奇地;极其,非常 she is grown wondrous pretty 她出落得美丽无比。
OriginLate 15th century: alteration of obsolete wonders (adjective and adverb), genitive of wonder, on the pattern of marvellous. |