marvellous
/ˈmɑːv(ə)ləs
/(US marvelous)
adjective
1Causing great wonder; extraordinary: these marvellous technological toys are fun to play with...
- You do though, after a while, start to wonder exactly where this marvellous country is.
- When an article gets visits in the hundreds, I wonder what marvelous prose has excited so many readers.
- The marvelous wonder that is your mind never ceases to amaze me.
Synonyms
amazing, astounding, astonishing, awesome, breathtaking, sensational, remarkable, spectacular, stupendous, staggering, stunning;
phenomenal, prodigious, miraculous, extraordinary, incredible, unbelievable
literary wondrous
1.1Extremely good or pleasing; splendid: you have done a marvellous job...
- David said the volunteers had done a marvellous job and he was pleased to give them a boost when their energy levels ran low.
- Now we have a swimming pool, a marvellous garden and a splendid folly.
- So the crews, I think, did a marvelous job in coordination with the flight attendants.
Synonyms
excellent, splendid, wonderful, magnificent, superb, glorious, sublime, lovely, delightful, beautiful, too good to be true
informal super, great, smashing, amazing, fantastic, terrific, tremendous, phenomenal, sensational, heavenly, gorgeous, dreamy, grand, fabulous, fab, fabby, fantabulous, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, awesome, amazeballs, to die for, magic, ace, cool, mean, bad, wicked, mega, crucial, mind-blowing, far out, A1, sound, out of this world, marvy, dope, def, phat
British informal brilliant, brill, bosting
North American informal neat, badass, bodacious, boss, radical, rad, peachy, boffo, bully, bitching, dandy, jim-dandy
US informal on fleek
Australian/New Zealand informal beaut, bonzer
informal, dated groovy, spanking, divine
British informal, dated capital, champion, wizard, corking, ripping, cracking, spiffing, top-hole, topping, beezer
North American informal, dated swell, keen
South African informal kif, lank
archaic goodly
Derivatives
marvellousness
/ noun ...- It features what he calls his ‘illusions,’ sleights-of-eye-and-mind that stagger around the lines between post-modernism, nostalgia, film references, and sheer aesthetic marvelousness.
- Nobody said anything of absolute total marvellousness and profundity, but we were all ourselves at our best, and we had a thoroughly good time.
- He was invoking the marvelousness of uncoordinated knowledge as a counterpoint to the socialists of his day who argued for the superiority of centralized, state-run, top-down coordination.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French merveillus, from merveille (see marvel).