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Marvelous   /mˈɑrvələs/   Listen
adjective
Marvelous  adj.  (Written also marvellous)  
1.
Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. "This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes."
2.
Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible; so improbable as to defy belief. "The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially the machines of the gods."
The marvelous, that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; opposed to the probable.
Synonyms: Wonderful; astonishing; surprising; strange; improbable; incredible. Marvelous, Wonderful. We speak of a thing as wonderful when it awakens our surprise and admiration; as marvelous when it is so much out of the ordinary course of things as to seem nearly or quite incredible.





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"Marvelous" Quotes from Famous Books



... did Percy circle the big practice field, as though determined to impress upon the lookers-on the marvelous advantages his new biplane ...
— The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - or, Young Aviators in a Wreck • John Luther Langworthy
... want nothing," said the clown. "Only just help Cobweb to scratch. I must go to the barber's, for methinks I am marvelous hairy about the face." ...
— Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare • E. Nesbit
... the West. Though the strangers were somewhat shy and suspicious, they offered no harm to the young Shawanoe, who, of course, showed only friendship toward them. From them he gained not a little rude information of the marvelous region which has since become familiar ...
— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... want to see the toys and dolls and everything. When they got to the fourth floor where all the children's things were kept, they were sorry they had spent even a minute any place else. For all the lovely dolls and marvelous toys and enticing games and beautiful pictures and fascinating puzzles made a person think that Santa Claus's shop and fairyland and magic were all mixed up together and set down in one place. The girls looked and looked and looked. They "oh-ed" and "ah-ed" and exclaimed till they couldn't think ...
— Mary Jane's City Home • Clara Ingram Judson
... down," Everset said, in violation of every law of spaceflight. "These guys are all right. As a matter of fact, they're the most marvelous—" ...
— The Hour of Battle • Robert Sheckley


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