Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Wonder

Nouns
  • wonder, marvel
  • astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment
  • amazedness etc. adj.
  • admiration, awe
  • stupor, stupefaction
  • stound, fascination
  • sensation
  • surprise etc. (inexpectation) Inexpectation. note of admiration
  • thaumaturgy etc. (sorcery) Sorcery.
Verbs
  • wonder, marvel, admire
  • be surprised etc. adj.
  • start
  • stare
  • open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes
  • gloar
  • gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath
  • look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog
  • look blank etc. (disappointment) [Failure of expectation.] Disappointment
  • not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses. not be able to account for etc. (unintelligible) Unintelligibility
  • not know whether one stands on one's head or one's not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels. surprise, astonish, amaze, astound
  • dumfound, dumfounder
  • startle, dazzle
  • daze
  • strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe
  • electrify
  • stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb
  • make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth
  • make one stare. take by surprise etc. (be unexpected) Inexpectation. be wonderful etc. adj.
  • beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description
  • stagger belief.
Adjectives
  • surprised etc. v.
  • aghast, all agog, breathless, agape
  • open-mouthed
  • awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck
  • spellbound
  • lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment
  • struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder. wonderful, wondrous
  • surprising etc. v.
  • unexpected etc. Inexpectation
  • unheard of
  • mysterious etc. (inexplicable) Unintelligibility
  • miraculous. indescribable, inexpressible, inaffable
  • unutterable, unspeakable. monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous
  • inconceivable, incredible
  • inimaginable, unimaginable
  • strange etc. (uncommon) Unconformity
  • passing strange. striking etc. v.
  • overwhelming
  • wonder-working.
Adverbs
  • wonderfully, c. adj.
  • fearfully
  • for a wonder, in the name of wonder
  • strange to say
  • to one's great surprise. with wonder etc. n., with gaping mouth
  • with open eyes, with upturned eyes.
Int
  • lo, lo and behold!, O!, heyday!, halloo!, what!, indeed!, really!, surely!, humph!, hem!, good lack, good heavens, good gracious!, Ye gods!, good Lord!, good grief!, Holy cow!, My word!, Holy shit! [Vulg.], gad so!, welladay! , dear me!, only think!, lackadaisy! , my stars, my goodness!, gracious goodness!, goodness gracious!, mercy on us!, heavens and earth!, God bless me!, bless us, bless my heart!, odzookens! , O gemini!, adzooks! , hoity-toity!, strong!, Heaven save the mark, bless the mark!, can such things be!, zounds!, 'sdeath! [Contr.], what on earth, what in the world!, who would have thought it!, c. (inexpectation) Inexpectation
  • you don't say so!, You're kidding!, No kidding, how now!, where am I.?
Phrases
  • one's hair standing on end.