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adjective

Marvelous adj. (Written also marvellous)

Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. "This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes."

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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Etymology of 'Marvelous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Marvelous" Quotes from Famous Books

... high adventure for young Daniel. It spurred him to further daring, and he set out on more and more distant explorations. Each time he returned from his trips with marvelous tales of what he had seen, of unbelievable numbers of buffalo and deer and wild beasts he had encountered. He always had an audience. No one listened with greater eagerness than the pretty dark-eyed daughter of the Bryans who were neighbors to the Boones. Daniel was still a young man, ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... hills and plain were shut out from his sight as the train plunged from the dazzling sunlight into the deep shadows of a tropical forest. And the subaltern recognised with a thrill of delight that he was entering the wonderful Terai Jungle, the marvelous belt of woodland that stretches for hundreds of miles along the foot of the Himalayas through Assam and Bengal to the far Siwalik range, clothing their lower slopes or scaling their steep sides into Nepal and Bhutan. Deep in its recesses the ...

— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly

... the Power that framed all these spheres, and sent them on their great errands; but more wonderful still the Power that gave to finite mind its power, to stand on one little point, and sweep the whole circle of the skies. Almost as marvelous is it that man, being man, can divine the universe, as that God, being God, could devise it. Cycles of years go by. Suns and moons and stars tread their mysterious rounds, but steady eyes are following them into the awful distances, steady hands are marking their eternal ...

— Gala-days • Gail Hamilton

... the very hairs of his head. Once more his spirit rose upon the wave of a hope which he could neither logically justify nor dare to refuse; for hope is hope whencesoever it spring, and needs no justification of its self-existence or of its sudden marvelous birth. The very hope was in itself enough for itself. And now he was near his home; his Annie was waiting for him; and in another instant his misery would be shared and comforted by her! He was walking toward the wonder-sign in the heavens. But even as he walked with it ...

— Far Above Rubies • George MacDonald

... await in hope the outcome. The battle that began the next day continued for one week and ended with a victory for the Allies as the German armies were forced back everywhere, a varying distance, to a line of defense prepared back of the Aisne River, to the north and east. This was a marvelous result. Just as the world was waiting with bated breath to hear of the fall of Paris, it heard instead, that the German army was in retreat. It was truly a miracle. Why not see in it proof that a Power infinitely greater than that of man ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

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