Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing wonder or astonishment.
- adjective Of the highest or best kind or quality; first-rate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of wonderful appearance, character, or quality; surpassing experience or conception; exciting astonishment or incredulity.
- Wonderfully; surprisingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
- adjective Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible; so improbable as to defy belief.
- adjective that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to
the probable .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Exciting wonder or surprise;
astonishing ;wonderful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or having the character of a miracle
- adjective too improbable to admit of belief
- adjective extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
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Examples
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Sexing the Cherry takes us on its own journey to the outer limits of possibility, to remind us that the marvelous is only ever a brief flexing of the imagination away, and that we all have secret lives we need to explore and experience fully to be at peace.
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Sexing the Cherry takes us on its own journey to the outer limits of possibility, to remind us that the marvelous is only ever a brief flexing of the imagination away, and that we all have secret lives we need to explore and experience fully to be at peace.
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Spooky and I fell asleep talking about how marvelous is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, especially the Hatter and the March Hare, the Bandersnatch and the battle with the Jabberwocky.
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Can't you just picture his tight body in marvelous 3D!
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Spooky and I fell asleep talking about how marvelous is Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, especially the Hatter and the March Hare, the Bandersnatch and the battle with the Jabberwocky.
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
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