Marvelous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Marvelous \Mar"vel*ous\, a. [OE. merveillous, OF. merveillos, F.
     Merveilleux. See {Marvel}, n.] [Written also {marvellous}.]
     1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
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              This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our


              eyes.                                 --Ps. cxiii.
                                                    23.
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     2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural
        power; incredible; so improbable as to defy belief.
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              The marvelous fable includes whatever is
              supernatural, and especially the machines of the
              gods.                                 --Pope.
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     {The marvelous}, that which exceeds natural power, or is
        preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to {the
        probable}.
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     Syn: Wonderful; astonishing; surprising; strange; improbable;
          incredible.
  
     Usage: {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  marvelous
       adj 1: extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a
              fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was
              fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous
              collection of rare books"; "had a rattling
              conversation about politics"; "a tremendous
              achievement" [syn: {fantastic}, {howling(a)}, {marvellous},
               {rattling(a)}, {terrific}, {tremendous}, {wonderful},
               {wondrous}]
       2: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story" [syn: {improbable},
           {marvellous}, {tall(a)}]
       3: being or having the character of a miracle [syn: {marvellous},
           {miraculous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "marvelous":
     agreeable, amazing, appalling, astonishing, astounding,
     awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, beguiling, bewildering,
     confounding, conspicuous, cool, dandy, divine, dreamy, egregious,
     enigmatic, enjoyable, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary,
     fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, formidable, gilt-edged, glorious,
     golden, groovy, heavenly, hot, hunky-dory, immense,
     incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, indescribable,
     ineffable, keen, legendary, magnificent, marked, miraculous,
     mythical, neat, nifty, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, of mark,
     outlandish, outstanding, passing strange, peachy, phenomenal,
     pleasant, pleasurable, portentous, prodigious, puzzling, rare,
     remarkable, rewarding, ripping, satisfying, sensational, signal,
     spectacular, splendid, splendiferous, staggering, sterling,
     stinking, strange, striking, stunning, stupefying, stupendous,
     super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superior,
     supernatural, surprising, swell, terrific, tremendous, uncommon,
     unexampled, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unparalleled,
     unprecedented, unspeakable, wonderful, wondrous