Definition of marvelous
1 : causing wonder : astonishing the marvelous directional sense of migrating birds
2 : miraculous, supernatural Gothic tales of marvelous and bizarre happenings
3 : of the highest kind or quality : notably superior has a marvelous way with children
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Examples of marvelous in a Sentence
We had a marvelous time at the party.
He has a marvelous way with children.
The weather was simply marvelous.
Recent Examples of marvelous from the Web
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Aside from her long-running R&B career, Ciara is a marvelous dancer and will whip her fellow members into shape.
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The charm of the experiment resided in its simple ingenuity; from common household items Darwin had made a marvelous discovery: 537 plants!
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Hosted by Cort Lane (SVP, animation and family entertainment) and Kevin Shinick (supervising producer, Marvel's Spider-Man), featuring the MARVELous debut of the new voice of Peter Parker!
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Both were imaginative modernists with marvelous veins of melodic lyricism and strong appetites for folk material, thrilling sonorities and drivingly percussive rhythms.
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Bad Ape is actually a great ape, a marvelous, semi-forgetful senior citizen whose doddering generosity is the sort that can save the day.
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Keep it sideways: Cork is a miraculous substance and a marvelous stopper, but for a cork to do its job, which is to swell and keep the seal tight, some amount of the liquid must touch it.
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Yet the section does offer some context for a marvelous LACMA treasure acquired in 2014 — an extremely rare fertility figure carved by the Bamana peoples of Mali in the late 13th or 14th century.
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Elliott is marvelous as Lee, peeling back the tough leather exterior to reveal the softness and vulnerability beneath.
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First Known Use of marvelous
14th century
MARVELOUS Defined for English Language Learners
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: extremely good or enjoyable
MARVELOUS Defined for Kids
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\ˈmär-və-ləs\Definition of marvelous for Students
1 : causing wonder or astonishment marvelous adventures
2 : of the finest kind or quality a marvelous dinner
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