forwonder means to astonish; fill with wonder or amazement. It carries an Arena rating of 1804, earned across 65 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, forwonder ranks #463 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #558 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #1,713 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #2,532 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “forwonder” is a great word
FORWONDER — [Verb] To astonish; to fill with wonder or amazement. From Middle English forwonderen, formed with the intensive prefix for- + wonder (from Old English wundor, "marvel, wonder"). Unlike "bewilder," which scatters the mind into confusion, or "astound," which implies a blunt-force shock, to forwonder is to enact a profound and deliberate saturation of the soul with awe. It is the cold, dense heft of a meteorite in the palm; the quiet astronomer whose calculations reveal a new galaxy; the arrested breath at the perfect geometry of a snowflake. It is the quiet recognition that the world retains a capacity to reconfigure the familiar into the sublime, recalibrating the very scale of the possible.
Etymology
From Middle English forwonderen. By surface analysis, for- + wonder. Compare Dutch verwonderen, German verwundern (“to astonish, amaze, bewilder, astound”).
verb
- To astonish; fill with wonder or amazement.
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