wonder

1. 1.

   have a wish or desire to know something

   “He wondered who had built this beautiful church”

   Synonymsinquireenquire

   Broaderquestion

   Narrowerrequest
2. 2.

   place in doubt or express doubtful speculation

   “I wonder whether this was the right thing to do”

   “she wondered whether it would snow tonight”

   Synonymsquestion

   Broaderchew over

   Narrowerscruple
3. 3.

   be amazed at

   “We marvelled at the child's linguistic abilities”

   Synonymsmarvel

   Broaderreact

Other forms of wonder

plural

wonders·

past tense

wonderred·

present participle

wonderring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wonder

What does wonder mean?

wonder means "the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wonder?

wonder has 2 syllables: won-der. The stress falls on "won". In IPA it is /ˈwʌndɚ/.

What is another word for wonder?

Close synonyms include wonderment, admiration, marvel, curiosity, inquire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wonder a common word?

wonder is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.