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US
/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
had a rattling conversation about politics
the film was fantastic!
a tremendous achievement
a marvelous collection of rare books
a howling success
a fantastic trip to the Orient -
too improbable to admit of belief
a tall story - being or having the character of a miracle
How To Use marvelous In A Sentence
- Even if you're not into playing the ponies, the setting is marvelous and it's a superb place for a picnic.
- He would also be a marvelous attraction for a graduate school of almost any-thing.
- Five miles and 1000 vertical feet had a marvelously dissuasive effect on the competition. The Road to New Waters
- The downscale springs are marvelously unsupervised, especially at night.
- Then the saint up and done a marvelous straange thing, for he flinged them feesh back in the well, just as they was, and began praayin 'to the Lard to forgive his man. Lying Prophets
- Those marvelous blue eyes blazed in fury, shooting brilliant sparks and glowing embers.
- He's done a marvelous job of putting minorities into positions of power.
- In those letters I discovered and fell in love with Nannerl, Mozart's sister, almost five years older than her brother, a prodigy in her own right, a marvelous singer and remarkable harpsichordist. George Heymont: The Shadow of Your Sib
- a marvelous collection of rare books
- And now I'm reading John Green's marvelous An Abundance of Katherines, and am pleased to have found another child for whom fables were not all that: "if only he'd known that the story of the tortoise and the hare is about more than a tortoise and a hare, he might have saved himself considerable trouble. Whither Jackie Paper?
