wondrous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Wonderful and amazing, inspiring awe.

   We all stared open-mouthed at the wondrous sight.

From Middle English wondrous, alteration after the suffix -ous of Middle English wonders (“wondrous, wonderful”, adjective), from Old English wundres (“of wonder”), genitive singular of wundor (“wonder, miracle”), from Proto-Germanic *wundrą (“wonder”). Compare Dutch wonder, German Wunder.

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