: that is to be marveled at : extraordinary
a wondrous feat
wondrous
adverb
archaic
wondrously
adverb
wondrousness
noun
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Examples of wondrous in a Sentence
The museum featured a display of wondrous tapestries.
what a wondrous discovery fire must have been
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Guillermo Del Toro’s debut film is a radical departure from Dracula and his batty ilk, as vampirism is reimagined as a side effect of the immortality granted by a wondrous mechanism created by a 16th-century alchemist.
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James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
On a night where Lionel Messi stole the headlines with a wondrous performance for Argentina, the likes of Colombia and Brazil also picked up some fantastic results.
Colombia 4-0 Chile
Colombia are well on their way to qualifying for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
The story has Kubo give up his normal life and enter the wondrous halls of otaku culture, with his old friend Tanaka.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
The Office of Exposition Park Management, the agency tasked by the state to oversee this wondrous, sprawling chaos, has sought to remedy the 160-acre park’s shortcomings for decades — with few results.
—Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
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James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
On a night where Lionel Messi stole the headlines with a wondrous performance for Argentina, the likes of Colombia and Brazil also picked up some fantastic results.
Colombia 4-0 Chile
Colombia are well on their way to qualifying for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
The story has Kubo give up his normal life and enter the wondrous halls of otaku culture, with his old friend Tanaka.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
The Office of Exposition Park Management, the agency tasked by the state to oversee this wondrous, sprawling chaos, has sought to remedy the 160-acre park’s shortcomings for decades — with few results.
—Sam Lubell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Wondrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wondrous. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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wondrous
adjective
won·drous
ˈwən-drəs 
: such as to be marveled at extraordinary
a wondrous place
wondrous
adverb
archaic
wondrously
adverb
wondrousness
noun
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