: that is to be marveled at : extraordinary
a wondrous feat
wondrous
adverb
archaic
wondrously
adverb
wondrousness
noun
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The museum featured a display of wondrous tapestries.
what a wondrous discovery fire must have been
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In the Coen brothers’ films, wondrous coincidences and absurd exaggerations come off as a comic cosmic order, as a cynical version of metaphysics.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
What our wondrous, astonishingly destructive civilization ultimately means is not something to be decided by those who caused it or even those doomed to live through its end, but only by those who come after: the children of our ruin.
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This simple and wondrous moment was cut short by a thunderstorm.
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For Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, this was their coolest moment in baseball time — the day their roads converged on a wondrous Sunday afternoon in Cooperstown.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 27 July 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
What our wondrous, astonishingly destructive civilization ultimately means is not something to be decided by those who caused it or even those doomed to live through its end, but only by those who come after: the children of our ruin.
—Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
This simple and wondrous moment was cut short by a thunderstorm.
—John Archibald, Southern Living, 25 May 2025
For Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, this was their coolest moment in baseball time — the day their roads converged on a wondrous Sunday afternoon in Cooperstown.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 27 July 2025
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“Wondrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wondrous. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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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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