Crossword clues for marvelous
marvelous
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marvelous \Mar"vel*ous\, a. [OE. merveillous, OF. merveillos, F. Merveilleux. See Marvel, n.] [Written also marvellous.]
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Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
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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.
--Pope.The marvelous, that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to the probable.
Syn: Wonderful; astonishing; surprising; strange; improbable; incredible.
Usage: 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "causing wonder," from Old French merveillos "marvelous, wonderful" (Modern French merveilleux), from merveille (see marvel (n.)). Weakened sense of "splendid, very nice" is from 1924. Related: Marvelously.
Wiktionary
a. (context US English) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
WordNet
adj. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, howling(a), marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story" [syn: improbable, marvellous, tall(a)]
being or having the character of a miracle [syn: marvellous, miraculous]
Wikipedia
Marvelous may refer to:
- Marvelous (album), a 2001 album by Misia
- Marvelous (film) a 2006 film starring Martha Plimpton
- Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima, a video game by Nintendo
- Marvelous Bridges, a rock formation in Bulgaria
- Marvelous Entertainment, a multinational media corporation
- Marvelous (company), video game developer
- Marvelous, a player-performance rating in the video game Dance Dance Revolution
- Marvellous, a 2014 British drama television film
Marvelous is Misia's third studio album and first self-produced album, released on April 25, 2001. It sold 881,150 copies in its first week, peaked at #1 for two consecutive weeks, and spent five weeks in the Top 5. The first pressing of the album came in sleeve case packaging. Marvelous is the 118th best-selling album of all time in Japan. It came in at #8 on the overall yearly chart, however Marvelous was the second highest selling original album of 2001, behind Hikaru Utada's Distance.
is a Japanese video game developer and anime producer that was formed in October 2011 by the merger of Marvelous Entertainment, AQ Interactive, and Liveware.
Usage examples of "marvelous".
He began to back up, for the sand ahead was too deep for a turn, and the way he managed the huge car along that narrow ridge aroused the admiration of Ajo, who alone was able to witness the marvelous performance.
The Azoreans had planned a series of parties and were marvelous hosts.
And they are marvelous bedmates as well--also due to my personal training.
The Marsgazelle had been a marvelous feat of bioengineering for its day, when an earlier generation of sportsmen had turned it loose to stock the Martian deserts.
Such a marvelous and amazing fish as the broadbill had never been imagined by them.
In the same way Burgo himself marvelous generous teasing hug gable bear-like Burgo had vanished mysteriously and suddenly from their lives.
I should say Baron Conrad, for Count Lambert had enlarged him-was in Cracow, and gifted the new duke with four of his marvelous horses, that they might protect him against assassins.
Oenother, a native of a village in Suabia, who performed marvelous feats of strength.
Yes, I left the station and walked to the marvelous structure we call the Howrah Bridge.
The ordering of affections in heaven and of lusts in hell is marvelous, and is known to the Lord alone.
When Radisson returned from Onondaga in April of 1659, he found his brother-in-law, Chouart Groseillers, just back from Nipissing, where he had been serving the Jesuits, with more tales of this marvelous undiscovered land.
These neuralgic pains fly along the tracks of nerves to different organs, and capriciously dart from point to point with marvelous celerity, producing nausea, headache, and sometimes delirium.
I had an opportunity to get a still better insight into the marvelous intellectual ability of Orthis, though I never saw into his mind or heart.
It would make a marvelous articlethe mad Ricardians carrying their roles to insane extremes.
He watched the play of muscles in that marvelous body and wondered that this Emperor, this Mei Saka, could have been fool enough to endanger a relationship with her.