| 单词 | marvelous |
| 释义 | marvelous (once / 797 pages) adj 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. WORD FAMILYmarvelous: marvelously+/marvel: marveled, marveling, marvelled, marveller, marvelling, marvelous, marvels/marveller: marvellers USAGE EXAMPLESNational Golf Links is a true links containing a marvelous collection of holes. Golf Digest(Dec 28, 2016) Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “noisy, cloying and altogether marvelous.” New York Times(Dec 24, 2016) His films are really marvelous, but there’s no commercial value in them. Slate(Dec 23, 2016) 1adj extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers a marvelous collection of rare books Syn fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous extraordinary beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable 2adj too improbable to admit of belief Syn improbable, marvellous, tall incredible, unbelievable beyond belief or understanding 3adj being or having the character of a miracle Syn marvellous, miraculous supernatural not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material |
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