wow
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since the 16th century; borrowed from Scots wow; ultimately a natural exclamation.
Inflected forms:
form: wows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An indication of excitement, surprise, astonishment, or pleasure.
pos: intj
examples: Wow, I sure was surprised!
Out on thir wanderand spiritis, wow! thow cryis.
gloss: An expression of amazement, awe, or admiration.
pos: intj
examples: Wow! How do they do that?
gloss: Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.
pos: intj
examples: Wow… good job using all of our supplies on the first day.
gloss: To amaze or awe.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He really wowed the audience.
If all of us can remember how great it felt to be wowed, why don't we make it a habit to do it more often for others? People remember you when you wow them, so to differentiate yourself with your clients and customers, think of doing something that would make them remember you.
We have the worst of both worlds: the royal family gives us nothing, and we in turn legitimise it, give it meaning and audience and pay, through subsidies and tax exemptions, for its ability to wow us.
gloss: Anything exceptionally surprising, unbelievable, outstanding, etc.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: ‘And say, Jimmy, wait till you see me in my new outfit...It’s a wow, kid.’
‘Jesus suffering fuck,’ said Adrian. ‘It’s not half a thought.’
‘Face it, it’s a wow.’
gloss: An utterance of "wow".
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: On this trip, we talked with fellow cruisers about their travels and boats, and many were curious about the Beneteau Swift Trawler. Gow graciously gave tours, during which we heard many wows, oohs and aahs.
One woman took a seat nearer the front for a closer look at my maps. Several people exhaled loudly. I heard a wow now and then.
Synonyms: adzooks
ay
caramba
mirabile dictu
chihuahua
begorra
bleeding heck
bleeding Nora
bless my heart
bless my soul
bless us
blige
blimey
bloody hell
bloody Nora
blow me
blow me backwards
blow me down
blow me over
blow me pink
blow me tight
blow me up
blow my buttons
butter my butt and call me a biscuit
by all that is holy
by Allah
by cracky
by George
by God
by golly
by gosh
by gum
by gummy
by jingo
by Jove
by juckies
by Jupiter
by thunder
by the living jingo
byrlady
Christ
Christ alive
Christ almighty
Christ on a bike
Christ on a cracker
Christ on a raft
Christ on a stick
coo
cor
cor blimey
cor lummy
cowabunga
crikey
criminy
cripes
crivvens
chuffing hell
dear God
dear me
dearie me
deary me
dear Lord
diggety
eep
egad
egads
ermahgerd
fancy that
flaming Nora
flipping heck
flipping Nora
fuark
fuck me
fucking hell
fucking Nora
gad so
Gadsbodikins
gadsbud
gadzooks
gaw
gee
gee whiz
gee willikers
geeminy
geez
geez Louise
geshmak
get out of town
glory be
God Almighty
God in heaven
God's teeth
good golly
golly
golly gee willikers
golly gosh
good God
good gracious
good gravy
good grief
good heavens
good Lord
goodness
goodness gracious
goodness gracious me
goodness me
googly-moogly
gorblimey
Gordon Bennett
gosh
gosh all hemlock
gracious
gramercy
great balls of fire
great Caesar
great Caesar's ghost
great googly moogly
great Scott
gyatt
hallo
hello
heavens
heavens above
heavens to Betsy
heavens to Murgatroyd
hell's bells
hey
heyday
hold up
holy buckets
holy cannoli
holy cow
holy crap
holy crap on a cracker
holy cricket
holy crickets
holy crud
holy dignity
holy doodle
holy fuck
holy fuck knuckles
holy fudge
holy guacamole
holy Hannah
holy hell
holy kamoley
holy kamoly
holy macaroni
holy mackerel
holy magnum
holy moley
holy moly
holy man
holy Moses
Holy Mother
Holy Mother of God
holy ravioli
holy shit
holy stromboli
holy smoke
holy Toledo
hooly dooly
hot damn
I'll be
I'll be a dirty bird!
I'll be a monkey's uncle
I'll be a son of a bitch
I'll be a son of a gun
I'll be blowed
I'll be bound
I'll be buggered
I'll be damned
I'll be danged
I'll be darned
I'll be dashed
I'll be dipped
I'll be dipped in shit
I'll be hanged
I'll be hornswoggled
I'll be jiggered
I'll be shot
imagine that
I'm blowed
I say
Janey Mack
Jaysus
Jeebus
jeepers
jeepers creepers
jeez
jeez Louise
jeezy peeps
jeezy-peezy
Jerusalem crickets
Jesum Crow
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Jesus fucking Christ
Jesus H. Christ
Mary and Joseph
Jesus Murphy
Jiminy Cricket
jings
jinkies
Judas Priest
jumping Jehoshaphat
jumping Jesus
Jupiter
knock me down with a feather
knock me over with a feather
land sakes
lauks
lawks
lawks a-mercy
lawl
leapin' lizards
Lord
Lord be praised
Lord love a duck
lordy
mama mia
mamma mia
man alive
mercy sakes
Mother of God
my
my conscience
my giddy aunt
my heavens
my sainted aunt
my sainted uncle
my God
my goodness
my gosh
my Lord
my my
my word
no way
O gemini
ods bodikin
odsfish
odzookens
oh
oh em gee
ohmigod
oh my
oh my days
oh my God
oh my Goddess
oh my goodness
oh my goodness gracious
oh my gosh
oh my hell
oh my heck
oh my fuck
oh my life
oh my Lord
oh my stars
oh my word
oi
OMG
omigod
omigosh
peas and rice
please
praise the Lord
rah
ruddy hell
ruddy Nora
sacré bleu
sakes alive
'sblood
'sdeath
shart
'sheart
sheesh
shit fire and save matches
shitting Nora
shiver my timbers
shut my mouth
shut the front door
slap my ass and call me Judy
slap my ass and call me Sally
snakes alive
sodding hell
son of a gun
stone me
stone the crows
strewth
strike me pink
'struth
suffering centipedes
suffering Moses
suffering Sappho
suffering succotash
sweet Grandma on stilts
sweet Jesus
sweet Mary
sweet mother of God
sweet mother of Jesus
waow
well
I never
what
what do you know
whoa
whoah
wow
wowee
wowzers
ye gods
yikes
yikes bikes
you don't say
yowzah
zoiks
zoinks
ZOMG
ZOMFG
zooterkins
zound
zounds
zowie
Antonyms: screw this
Related words: FML
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class VI § 870. Wonder
Derived words: big wow
wowee
wow factor
wowsers
wow word
wowzah
wowzer
wowser
wowless
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