MIRACULOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miraculous mean? 

• MIRACULOUS (adjective)
  The adjective MIRACULOUS has 2 senses:

1. being or having the character of a miracle

2. peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention

  Familiarity information: MIRACULOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIRACULOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

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:

miracle (any amazing or wonderful occurrence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention

Synonyms:

heaven-sent; miraculous; providential

Context example:

a providential recovery

Similar:

fortunate (having unexpected good fortune)

Derivation:

miracle (a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent)

 Context examples 

To give you an idea of how special, even miraculous, this aspect can be, I will tell you a little story.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In his heart Martin knew that it was the miraculous truth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They at length agreed that the person should be chosen as pope who should be distinguished by some divine and miraculous token.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I still stood absolutely dumfoundered at what appeared to me her miraculous self-possession and most inscrutable hypocrisy, when the cook entered.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How miraculous did this appear!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But, in the absence of any such miraculous provision, my desire was to apply myself to some pursuit that would not lie too heavily upon her purse; and to do my duty in it, whatever it might be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Whether Zambo can at last take these letters to the river, or whether I shall myself in some miraculous way carry them back with me, or, finally, whether some daring explorer, coming upon our tracks with the advantage, perhaps, of a perfected monoplane, should find this bundle of manuscript, in any case I can see that what I am writing is destined to immortality as a classic of true adventure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However little Mr. Darcy might have liked such an address, he contented himself with coolly replying that he perceived no other alteration than her being rather tanned, no miraculous consequence of travelling in the summer.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life—the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars and ready to envelop me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)