startling vs wondrous

startling

adj
  • Likely to startle; surprising; shocking. 

noun
  • A startle; a sudden motion or shock. 

wondrous

adj
  • Wonderful; amazing, inspiring awe; marvelous. 

adv
  • In a wonderful degree; remarkably; wondrously. 

How often have the words startling and wondrous occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )