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no wonder

no wonder is the alternative form of small wonder.

Meaning of small wonder

Noun

small wonder (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) An event or fact whose cause or rationale is not difficult to discern; an unsurprising occurrence.
    • Small wonder if he had loved her for herself, she was so beautiful.1891, F. Marion Crawford, chapter 24, in The Witch of Prague

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Questions about no wonder

What is no wonder the alternative form of?
No wonder is the alternative form of small wonder.

Words near no wonder in the dictionary

  1. no way, José
  2. no ways
  3. no where
  4. no while
  5. no win, no fee
  6. no wonder
  7. no word of a lie
  8. no word of lie
  9. no worries
  10. no wrong answers
  11. no wuckas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: no wonder (page history and authors); small wonder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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