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.
"...moments before it spat its rain down on me." greygirlbeast 2010
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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.
"...moments before it spat its rain down on me." greygirlbeast 2010
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Capitalist Bacchanalia Yolanda Reid Chassiakos 2010
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Capitalist Bacchanalia Yolanda Reid Chassiakos 2010
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Capitalist Bacchanalia Yolanda Reid Chassiakos 2010
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Capitalist Bacchanalia Yolanda Reid Chassiakos 2010
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The ancient Greek philosophers coined a marvelous phrase, "Pan Metron Ariston" -- everything in moderation.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: Capitalist Bacchanalia Yolanda Reid Chassiakos 2010
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