Word Meanings - WONDERINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a wondering manner.
Related words: (words related to WONDERINGLY)
- WONDERSTRUCK
Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden. - WONDER
OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. 1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not - WONDERFUL
Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n. - WONDERLAND
A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - WONDERWORK
A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron. - WONDERLY
Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - WONDERINGLY
In a wondering manner. - WONDERMENT
Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott. - WONDER-WORKER
One who performs wonders, or miracles. - WONDEROUS
See WONDROUS - WONDER-WORKING
Doing wonders or surprising things. - WONDERER
One who wonders. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - WONDERS
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A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - BEWONDER
1. To fill with wonder. 2. To wonder at; to admire. - UNWONDER
To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. Fuller. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.