marvelous
Something marvelous is unusual, wonderful, and almost miraculous. Finding a bag of gold would be marvelous by any standard.
Something that's decent or even simply good isn't marvelous. A marvelous thing needs to be really stunning, exceptional, or hard to believe. Marvelous things make people marvel at them — they're amazing and a little shocking, like a miracle. Winning the lottery would be marvelous. Finding out that ice cream is actually good for you would be marvelous. And if you want to make someone feel extra nice, tell them their new hat looks marvelous.
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extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers“a marvelous collection of rare books”synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, incredible, marvellous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrousextraordinarybeyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable
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too improbable to admit of beliefsynonyms: improbable, marvellous, tall
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being or having the character of a miraclesynonyms: marvellous, miraculoussupernaturalnot existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material
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Vocabulary lists containing marvelous
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