Definitions
Etymologies
- First attested from 1300, from Old French, from merveillos, from merveille a wonder. See also: marvel. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now break it out into a series of 1 and 2 story personal dwelling units … and something marvellous is achieved!!!!!!”
“Thereupon the youth began, “Right wondrous and marvellous is my case and that of these fishes; and were it graven with gravers upon the eye corners it were a warner to whoso would be warned.””
“Disraeli wants to create a context where the marvellous is possible.”
“To say the British people have been marvellous is an absolute understatement.”
“For eleven days I walked in marvellous spring weather, under the sun and in the green.”
“The more I know dogs the more amazin 'marvellous they are to me,”
“Which he calls a marvellous line of Theobald, 'unless (says he) the play called the Double Falsehood be (as he would have it thought)”
“But of the five sovereigns of the Tudor dynasty it happened that only one, Henry VII., the first monarch of that dynasty, found or made an opportunity for the display of marked -- scarcely perhaps of "marvellous" -- personal courage; and thus the selection of the Tudor dynasty by the writer referred to as furnishing a contrasting illustration in the matter of personal courage to that of the Romanoffs was not particularly fortunate.”
“And it's only occasionally - like this occasion - that I lift my head and think, `Bloody hell, that's marvellous, that is.”
“Sanin could not help recalling the marvellous country he had just come from ....”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘marvellous’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Words for Haikus
Getting the Perfect Word for 5-7-5.
inevitable, serendipity, marvellous, expectations, aspirations, peculiar, zephyr, hubris, surreptitious, pennyroyal, quizzical, kaleidoscope and 19 more...
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The New Yorker's style manual
This list is my attempt to figure out The New Yorker's style and usage guidelines. It is based on reading articles within the pages of that venerable magazine and working backward. Feel free to add...
coöperate, diaeresis, trema, dieresis, t. h. white write..., updike plug, meracious eclecti..., kael without fail, E.B. White, coöperation, zoölogical, reënter and 14 more...
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Neato Keen Words
My list of neato keen words.
fab, neato, keen, fantabulous, awesome, marvellous, hubba, yurt, kempt, effete, jumbo, italic and 2 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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practice 2
100 words
momentous, domicile, adroit, ingenious, dexterous, genius, brevity, decorum, propriety, dignity, err, blunder and 91 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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uncle wiggly
fouled, baby, camel's-hair, kleenex, soiled, highball, wuddayacallit, dopey, unwashed, marvellous, gimme, holy and 16 more...
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likes
biro, woozy, nevertheless, hearken, delectable, efficacious, lovely, if, interstellar, quibble, plush, oodles and 12 more...
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Beyond Fair To Middling
words or expressions which, when used with and in the sense of "it's _____" or "it's a _____" mean simply good. Or better :-)
balltearer, beauty, ripper, all good, going swimmingly, snorter, ripsnorter, cracker, belter, corker, jaffa, nifty and 44 more...
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no really: this is how it's spelt
foetus, gaol, travelling, marvellous, defence, realisation, snivelling, chuse, connexion, paralysed
Tweets
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bilby "Then perceived he first the hermit priest which was slain, then made he a marvellous sorrow upon him."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'. Sep 13, 2009