Amazed vs Wonder - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between amazed and wonder

is that amazed is past tense of amaze while wonder is to be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

As an adjective amazed

is astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.

As a noun wonder is

something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.

amazed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Astonished; confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder; greatly surprised.

*:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed .

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}

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References

wonder

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Noun

(en noun)

Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}

Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.

Someone very talented at something, a genius.

The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment.

* (Plato), Theætetus (section 155d)

Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder' is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in ' wonder . He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).

* Bible, (w) iii. 10

They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

* 1781 , (Samuel Johnson), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

(UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.

* 1934 , Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams

Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.

Derived terms

* bewonder * boy wonder * girl wonder * gutless wonder * little wonder * nine day wonder * no wonder * one hit wonder * * small wonder * Wonder Woman * wonderberry * wonderboy * wonderbra * wonderchild * wonderdrug * wonderful * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous, wonderous * wonderworker * work wonders

Verb

(en verb)

To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

* (Jonathan Swift), (w, Gulliver's Travels)

I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.

* Johnson

We cease to wonder at what we understand.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.

* (William Shakespeare)

I wonder , in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.

Derived terms

* wonderer

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