Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: marvelous
IPA transcription: [m'ɑɹvələs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • 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"
  • Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)
    Meaning: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"
Usage examples
  • Marvelous!
  • It's marvelous--absolutely marvelous just to think about it."
  • In performing operations, the experts of Dore-lyn have reached a marvelous degree of perfection.
  • After wrapping myself in my blankets, I still gazed into the marvelous sky and made out to sleep only about two hours.
  • It would become imbued with marvelous possibility, a thing for which royal military bureaus, imperial navies, would pay a great price.
  • "But one, day" continued the Bug, "a marvelous circumstance occurred that altered my very existence and brought me to my present pinnacle of greatness.
  • The fourth place was given to Radium, the fifth to Antiseptics and Antitoxines, the sixth to Spectrum Analysis, and the seventh to the marvelous X-Ray.
  • And still, throughout the country side, the old folks tell with pride tales of the marvelous feats of strength performed in the days when "Old Matt" was young.
  • Not one of them was more attentive than the humble, unnoticed Woggle-Bug, and I acquired in this way a fund of knowledge that I will myself confess is simply marvelous.
  • "Throughout this trying period, Sir Douglas Haig, aided by his divisional commanders and his brigade commanders, held the line with marvelous tenacity and undaunted courage."