Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: marvelously
IPA transcription: [m'ɑɹvələsli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously
    Meaning: (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"
Usage examples
  • The voice was marvelously pure, deep, and musical, and, like the brown eyes, betrayed the real strength of the man, denied by his gray hair and bent form.
  • His mind was slow in acquisition, and his powers of reasoning and rhetoric improved constantly to the end of his life, at a rate of progress marvelously regular and sustained.
  • By means of a generous employment of free counterpoint, in other words a kind of polyphony in which the various voices use different melodies in harmonious combination, he gained a potent auxiliary in his cunning workmanship, and emphasized the folly of rejecting the contrapuntal experiences, of, for instance, a Sebastian Bach. Musical instruments, as well as musical materials, were his servants in developing the glowing fancies of his marvelously constructive brain.