MARVELOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marvelous mean? 

• MARVELOUS (adjective)
  The adjective MARVELOUS has 3 senses:

1. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

2. too improbable to admit of belief

3. being or having the character of a miracle

  Familiarity information: MARVELOUS used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARVELOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

Synonyms:

fantastic; grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; terrific; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous

Context example:

a tremendous achievement

Similar:

extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Too improbable to admit of belief

Synonyms:

improbable; marvellous; marvelous; tall

Context example:

a tall story

Similar:

incredible; unbelievable (beyond belief or understanding)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Being or having the character of a miracle

Synonyms:

marvellous; marvelous; miraculous

Similar:

supernatural (not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material)

Derivation:

marvel (something that causes feelings of wonder)

 Context examples 

The Sun is your ruler, giving this marvelous aspect extra weight and importance for you, so while everyone loves this annual event, you likely loved it more (allow a day, plus or minus).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I do not know how long we stayed motionless gazing at this marvelous spectacle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In either instance, you are likely to enjoy marvelous evening with an enchanting atmosphere.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'm looking around. I'm having a marvelous—

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)