: 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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Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
This is the moment bird-watchers have been waiting for—the wondrous window when hundreds of millions of birds may stream across the sky in a single night en route to claim a territory, find a mate, build a nest and reproduce.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
And wondrous wasn't a word a visitor might have used to describe this nine-holer.
—CBS News, 1 May 2026
That has also meant that Morgan Gibbs-White has been deployed closer to the left flank to accommodate those two, which has also worked to wondrous effect.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Wondrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wondrous. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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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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