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."