Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Wondrous \Won"drous\, adv. [OE. wonders, adv. (later also adj.).
See {Wonder}, n., and cf. {-wards}.]
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.
Wondrous \Won"drous\, a.
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.
Source : WordNet®
wondrous
adv : (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is
superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously
slowly" [syn: {wonderfully}, {wondrously}, {superbly},
{toppingly}, {marvellously}, {terrifically}, {marvelously}]
wondrous
adj : extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "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" [syn: {fantastic},
{howling(a)}, {marvelous}, {marvellous}, {rattling(a)},
{terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful}]