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woman or lady, maidservant, chambermaid, handmaiden, abigail,
lady-in-waiting, Brit charwoman, Colloq Brit char, daily: They
have a woman who comes in every other day.
wonder n. 1 marvel, prodigy, phenomenon, spectacle, rarity, sight,
curiosity, miracle, Slang knockout, stunner, mind-blower,
mind-boggler, trip: Surely, the wheel must rank high among the
wonders of technology. And still he gazed, and still the wonder
grew, / That one small head could carry all he knew. 2 awe,
astonishment, admiration, amazement, wonderment, surprise,
stupefaction, fascination: Facsimile transmission, which used
to excite so much wonder, is now used in offices all over the
world.
--v. 3 ponder, muse, meditate, think, theorize, conjecture,
puzzle, query, question, inquire, be inquisitive, be curious,
ask oneself, speculate, cudgel (one's) brains: I wondered if I
would be invited to the dance. Have you ever wondered what makes
the world go round? 4 marvel (at), goggle, gawk, gape, stare, be
awed, be thunderstruck, be amazed, be astonished: We wondered
at the death-defying skills of the trapeze artistes. 5 wonder
about. question or doubt the sanity or reason or reasonableness
of: I wondered about Tammy after that streaking episode.
wooded adj. sylvan, forested, bosky, tree-covered, woody, timbered:
We rested and had our lunch in the coolness of a wooded glen.
wooden adj. 1 wood, woody, ligneous, xyloid: The wooden cabinet for
the kitchen is almost finished. 2 stiff, rigid, artificial,
clumsy, stilted, unnatural, awkward, ungainly, spiritless,
unanimated, dead, lifeless, dry, passionless, unimpassioned,
impassive, vacant, empty, colourless, expressionless, deadpan:
The understudy gave a wooden performance as Uncle Vanya. 3
unintelligent, block-headed, stupid, dull, insensitive,
slow-witted, dull-witted, obtuse, oafish, doltish, tiny-minded,
dim-witted, dunderpated, Colloq thick, wooden-headed,
knuckle-headed: Clancy has some pretty wooden ideas about how
to run a business.
woolly adj. 1 fleecy, woollen, wool-bearing, laniferous, lanate or
lanose, lanuginose or lanuginous, downy, fuzzy, shaggy,
flocculent or floccose, flocky: He was wearing a woolly hat.
After two days one test tube contained a woolly precipitate. 2