marvelous

also adj.

1. Causing wonder or astonishment.
2. Miraculous; supernatural.
3. Of the highest or best kind or quality; first-rate: has a marvelous collection of rare books.

marvelously mar'vel·ous·ly adv.
marvelousness mar'vel·ous·ness n.

also marvellous

adjective

1. So remarkable as to elicit disbelief: amazing, astonishing, astounding, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, incredible, miraculous, phenomenal, prodigious, stupendous, unbelievable, wonderful, wondrous. See good/bad.
2. Particularly excellent: divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, sensational, splendid, superb, terrific, wonderful. Informal dandy, dreamy, great, ripping, super, swell, tremendous. Slang cool, groovy, hot, keen¹, neat, nifty. Idioms: out of this world. See good/bad.

adj

Definition: hard to believe; amazing
Antonyms: believable, expected, ordinary, plain, unamazing

adj

Definition: superb, great
Antonyms: awful, bad, inconsiderable, insignificant, paltry, worthless

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marvellous, the (US marvelous, )a category of fiction in which supernatural, magical, or other wondrous impossibilities are accepted as normal within an imagined world clearly separated from our own reality. The category includes fairy tales, many romances, and most science fiction, along with various other kinds of fantasy with ‘other‐worldly’ settings, like J. R. R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings (1954–5). Modern theorists have distinguished marvellous tales from those of the uncanny in terms of the explanations offered for strange events: in the marvellous, these are explained as magic, while in the uncanny they are given psychological causes.

IN BRIEF: adj. - Being or having the character of a miracle; Extraordinarily good.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - forunderlig, mærkværdig, fantastisk, vidunderlig, pragtfuld

Français (French)
adj. - merveilleux, formidable

Deutsch (German)
adj. - wunderbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - θαυμάσιος, θαυμαστός

Italiano (Italian)
magnifico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - maravilhoso

Русский (Russian)
изумительный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - maravilloso, espléndido, magnífico

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - underbar, vidunderlig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
奇特的, 奇迹般的, 很棒的, 不可思议的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 奇特的, 奇蹟般的, 很棒的, 不可思議的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 특별한, 이상한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 驚くべき, 不思議な, 信じられない, すばらしい

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נפלא, מדהים‬

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