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WONDERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing curiosity
Example:
raised a speculative eyebrow
Synonyms:
inquisitive; questioning; speculative; wondering
Classified under:
Similar:
curious (eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb wonder
Context examples:
The expression on his face turned to wondering horror.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Harriet blushed and smiled, and said something about wondering that people should like her so much.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If a planet is there, it's extremely distant and will stay that way (with no chance — in case you're wondering — of ever colliding with Earth, or bringing "days of darkness").
(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)
I stood gazing round and wondering where on earth I might be, when I saw some one coming towards me in the darkness.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Beyond wondering at what could have been Dennin's motive, they remained silent, oppressed by the horror of the tragedy.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He does not give the least fling at Benwick; does not so much as say, 'I wonder at it, I have a reason of my own for wondering at it.'
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She looked at me with a wondering distrust which was much more to my mind than her whole-hearted confidence.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wondering, and of my wonder finding no end, I complied.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Catherine replied only by a look of wondering ignorance.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
