Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Astonishment, awe, or surprise.
- n. Something that produces wonder; a marvel.
- n. Puzzlement or curiosity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Surprise; astonishment.
- n. Something wonderful; a wonderful appearance.
Wiktionary
- n. a state, arousal, or thing describable by wonder, strange, awe, surprise, marvel, or astonishment
- n. a puzzle or curiosity
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
Etymologies
- wonder + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That was close to a shank," Faldo said in wonderment as Harrington hit the second of two balls into the water.”
“I just looked and smiled in wonderment of why this was said.”
“The Indians looked at him in wonderment that he should laugh.”
“Townshend later told her afterward that her performance made him weep, and at the end, you can see Barbra Streisand turn to Townshend and ask in wonderment, "Did you write that song?”
The Huffington Post: Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return
“Sambrooke, who forgot his beloved statistics in wonderment at girl babies that insisted on growing up.”
“Around them, the Grand Central crowd looks on in wonderment, trying to figure out what's going on -- a little scared, but delighted too.”
“Gawkers and passersby will have ample opportunity to cheer on or watch in wonderment as each competitor creatively and, towards the finale, desperately attempts to stave off sleep.”
“John looked back at Jack, and they traded an expression of wonderment.”
“Many innocent passers-by gawked in wonderment, but those in the know recognized it as an art installation conceptualized and executed by Dutch-born artist Iepe B.T. Rubingh in conjunction with the first annual Singapore Biennale.”
“But when one night I took my daughter out for a walk, the moon rode high, and lo, the even sheen it cast across the faux - adobe houses, and the way it caught her exuberant small face, upturned in wonderment, filled me with the kind of mild serenity that had, coyotelike, eluded me in every tranquil desert place we went; not among the ironwoods and saguaros but within that synthetic so-called estate,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wonderment’.
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Hilary's List
Just a list of words I like
wellspring, mystery, wonderment, intrinsic, artisan, enchantment, magic, transience, incomplete, impermanent, imperfect, resonance and 163 more...
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Scriptie: The Shakespearean Language ...
It isn't all about fucking cocksuckers. There aren't too many shows on TV that use Wordie words. (So of course it was cancelled.)
Best viewed in cloud format.sweggen, hooplehead, cocksucker, dope, yankton, camp, pussy, bonanza, laudanum, chinaman, hoecake, free gratis and 210 more...
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Nakoo's list of beautiful words.
Just about any word I like at the time.
razbliuto, anaxiphilia, lipothymous, inamorata, acushla, abulia, serendipity, alexithymia, quixotic, idiosyncratic, ad nauseam, equanimity and 305 more...
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word
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schadenfreude, maritime, doppelganger, dainty, widdershins, jabberwocky, hazmat, biohazard, unfortunate, fortune, hyperbole, delirious and 45 more...
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sound-pretty sounds
words that are beautiful, whether because of sound, meaning, or both.
anomaly, procreate, caboose, linguistics, unapologetic, spontaneity, skittish, cygnet, decimate, harrowing, frumpy, woebegone and 53 more...
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1st List
haven, music, sweet, cloud, swirl, sky, summer, sun, change, prince, night, star and 11 more...
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andiralaw's Words
misanthrope, anger, lust, wonder, purple, uvula, furtive, gesticulation, obfuscate, rational, irrational, aequi and 44 more...
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found in blogs
from john latta's isola di rifiuti ... nick piombino's fait accompli ... suzanne's suzannagig jig ... the communal as/is ... k. silem mohammad's lime tree ... joseph duemer's sharp sand ... paula's...
miscible, jejune, barmy, offal, scurrilous, careen, grimace, marinated, petulance, desuetude, dictum, ensorcelled and 27 more...
Tweets
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