wondrous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous.

   We all stared open-mouthed at the wondrous sight.

2. 2
   adv

   In a wonderful degree; remarkably; wondrously.

   And looking vp, when as his shield he lakt, / And sword saw not, he wexed wondrous woe

3. 3
   adv

   (used as an intensifier) extremely well

4. 4
   adj

   extraordinarily good or great

Etymology

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.