Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: marvellous
IPA transcription: [m'ɑɹvələs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)
    Meaning: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"
  • Synonyms: marvelous, marvellous, miraculous
    Meaning: being or having the character of a miracle
  • Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
    Meaning: extraordinarily good or great ; 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"
Usage examples
  • His escape from death had in it something of the marvellous.
  • The people are--they wear just such garb as--Oh, marvellous!
  • What a marvellous mind there lay behind those exquisite, childlike eyes of the wonderful Henriette!
  • In an instant there came a marvellous change. He saw the stone melt, and begin to grow flexible and soft.
  • Athwart that dense and darksome atmosphere I saw a figure swimming upward come, Marvellous unto every steadfast heart,
  • Holy father, said Sir Launcelot, I marvel of the voice that said to me marvellous words, as ye have heard to-forehand.
  • But with morning dawn she felt a little safer, and the sun appeared a marvellous sight to her from which she could hardly turn her eyes.
  • He enriched the structure of his church, which is dedicated in honour of the blessed Apostle Andrew with manifold adornments and marvellous workmanship.
  • We should never have had them stated in the same form, nor proved with the same marvellous lucidity and simplicity, but the facts themselves we should by this time have arrived at.
  • Above all, the story of our Saviour's ascension into Heaven, and the marvellous fulfilment of His promises in the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, would have been left untold.