marvellousadjective
UK US marvelous uk/ˈmɑː.vəl.əs/us/ˈmɑːr.vəl.əs/B1 extremely good:
He's done a marvellous job of the decorating.
It took me ages to get it right, but it was a marvellous feeling when I did.
It's marvellous how everyone's tried to help.
He was a truly marvellous storyteller.
We've achieved some marvellous results with this new drug.
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- A marvellous reception awaited me on my first day at work.
- From the garden there was a marvellous view over open countryside.
- From the restaurant there was a marvellous prospect of Sienna and the countryside beyond.
- That was a marvellous backhand volley.
- The concert was absolutely marvellous.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
- textbook
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marvellously
adverb US marvelously uk/ˈmɑː.vəl.əs.li/us/ˈmɑːr.vəl.əs.li/
We've had a few arguments over the years, but in general we get on marvellously.