adj
Meaning 1
Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Examples
- I went to a marvelous party last week.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: portentous
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
marvelous
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈmɑːvələs/
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UK: /ˈmɑːvləs/
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US: /ˈmɑɹvələs/
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
too improbable to admit of belief
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a tall story
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: improbable, marvellous, tall(a)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
being or having the character of a miracle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: marvellous, miraculous
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
First attested from 1300 as Middle English merveilous, from Old French merveillus, from merveille (“a wonder”), equivalent to marvel + -ous.
Across languages
Translations
76 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُدْهِش (mudhiš) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Arabic: بَدِيع (badīʕ) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Asturian: maraviyosu — exciting wonder or surprise
- Azerbaijani: əcaib — exciting wonder or surprise
- Azerbaijani: heyranedici — exciting wonder or surprise
- Azerbaijani: xariqüladə — exciting wonder or surprise
- Azerbaijani: valehedici — exciting wonder or surprise
- Azerbaijani: ecazkar — exciting wonder or surprise
- Belarusian: дзіво́сны (dzivósny) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Bengali: অলৌকিক (olōukik) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Bengali: অবিশ্বাস্য (obiśśasśo) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Bengali: বিস্ময়কর (biśśõẏokor) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Bengali: অদ্ভুত (odbhut) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Bulgarian: чуден (čuden) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Bulgarian: удивителен (udivitelen) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Catalan: meravellós — exciting wonder or surprise
- Chinese Mandarin: 奇妙的 (qímiàode) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Chinese Mandarin: 非凡的 — exciting wonder or surprise
- Chinese Mandarin: 太好了 — exciting wonder or surprise
- Czech: úžasný — exciting wonder or surprise
- Czech: udivující — exciting wonder or surprise
- Czech: obdivuhodný — exciting wonder or surprise
- Dutch: wonderbaar — exciting wonder or surprise
- Dutch: geweldig — exciting wonder or surprise
- Esperanto: mirinda — exciting wonder or surprise
- Finnish: ihmeellinen — exciting wonder or surprise
- Finnish: ihana — exciting wonder or surprise
- Finnish: uskomaton — exciting wonder or surprise
- French: merveilleux — exciting wonder or surprise
- Galician: marabilloso — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: გასაოცარი (gasaocari) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: საოცარი (saocari) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: სასწაულებრივი (sasc̣aulebrivi) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: განსაცვიფრებელი (gansacviprebeli) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: საკვირველი (saḳvirveli) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: საუცხოო (saucxoo) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: ჩინებული (činebuli) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Georgian: შესანიშნავი (šesanišnavi) — exciting wonder or surprise
- German: wunderbar — exciting wonder or surprise
- German: wundersam — exciting wonder or surprise
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (sildaleiks) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Ancient Greek: θαυμάσιος (thaumásios) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Hebrew: נהדר (nehedár) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Hebrew: מדהים (madhím) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Hungarian: csodálatos — exciting wonder or surprise
- Icelandic: undursamlegur — exciting wonder or surprise
- Icelandic: stórkostlegur — exciting wonder or surprise
- Icelandic: undraverður — exciting wonder or surprise
- Interlingua: meraviliose — exciting wonder or surprise
- Italian: meraviglioso — exciting wonder or surprise
- Japanese: 驚くべき (odorokubeki) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Kazakh: тамаша (tamaşa) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Kazakh: таңғажайып (tañğajaiyp) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Korean: 놀라운 (nollaun) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Latin: mīrus — exciting wonder or surprise
- Latin: mirabilis — exciting wonder or surprise
- Māori: whakamīharo — exciting wonder or surprise
- Māori: whakaharahara — exciting wonder or surprise
- Plautdietsch: groosoatich — exciting wonder or surprise
- Polish: cudowny — exciting wonder or surprise
- Polish: zdumiewający — exciting wonder or surprise
- Polish: cudny — exciting wonder or surprise
- Portuguese: maravilhoso — exciting wonder or surprise
- Romanian: minunat — exciting wonder or surprise
- Russian: изуми́тельный (izumítelʹnyj) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Russian: чуде́сный (čudésnyj) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Russian: удиви́тельный (udivítelʹnyj) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Russian: великоле́пный (velikolépnyj) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Russian: превосхо́дный (prevosxódnyj) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhaileach — exciting wonder or surprise
- Spanish: maravilloso — exciting wonder or surprise
- Swedish: underbar — exciting wonder or surprise
- Telugu: అద్భుతమైన (adbhutamaina) — exciting wonder or surprise
- Turkish: harika — exciting wonder or surprise
- Turkish: olağanüstü — exciting wonder or surprise
- Ukrainian: чудо́вий (čudóvyj) — exciting wonder or surprise