wondering

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won·der·ing

(wŭn′dər-ĭng)

adj.

Feeling or expressing awe, admiration, amazement, or surprise.

won′der·ing·ly adv.

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wondering

(ˈwʌndərɪŋ)

adj

1. fascinated

2. curious and enthusiastic

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Adj.

wondering - showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"

inquisitive, questioning, speculative

curious - eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"

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stupefatto

wondering

[ˈwʌndərɪŋ] ADJ [tone, look] (= questioning) → perplejo; (= amazed) → sorprendido

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wondering

adj (= astonished) tone, look → verwundert, erstaunt; (= doubtful) → fragend

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wondering

[ˈwʌnd/ərɪŋ] adj → stupito/a, stupefatto/a

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It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering. They wondered about human nature, human passions, human hopes and fears, the struggles, triumphs and defeats, the cares and joys and sorrows, the lives and deaths of common men and women!

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Ostensibly she went to get some shades of Berlin wool, at a tolerably respectable shop that was chiefly supported by the ladies of the vicinity: really--I trust there is no breach of charity in supposing that she went with the idea of meeting either with the Rector himself, or some other admirer by the way; for as we went along, she kept wondering 'what Hatfield would do or say, if we met him,' &c.

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There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.

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"Just think," said Cecily, "last New Year's Eve we were wondering what would happen this year; and what a lot of things have happened that we never expected.

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"I shall?" said Colin, and he lay still as if he were wondering about things.

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Then sweet music sounded on the air, and the loud tones were hushed, as in wondering silence the Fairies waited what should come.

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As he was wandering disconsolately about the meadows round the palace, wondering how he could escape being put to death, a little bee flew past, and settling on his shoulder whispered in his ear,

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It set me thinking so that when Ada was asleep, I still remained before the fire, wondering and wondering about Bleak House, and wondering and wondering that yesterday morning should seem so long ago.