wondrously

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adverb

In a wondrous manner.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adverbwondrously (comparative more wondrously, superlative most wondrously)

comparative more wondrously · superlative most wondrously

  1. In a wondrous manner.

    Renamed in honor of the tube tearjerker, the work wondrously went on to become the most recognized theme in all of soapdom.

    1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 338
    1 more example

    But had thoſe vvits the vvonders of their dayes, / Or that ſvveete Teian Poet [Anacreon] vvhich did ſpend / His plenteous vaine in ſetting forth her [Venus's] prayſe, / Seene but a glims of this, vvhich I pretend, / Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, […]

    1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie”, in Fowre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 43

Synonyms & antonyms

adverb(used as an intensifier) excellently

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

wondrously. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wondrously

MLA

“wondrously.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wondrously. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wondrously,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wondrously.

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