marvellous

/'mɑ:viləs/

Thân thiện

The fireworks display on New Year's Eve was absolutely marvellous.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Extraordinarily good, wonderful, or impressive: Used to describe something that causes great admiration, pleasure, or surprise due to its exceptional quality.
   • Miraculous or astonishing: Having the character of something so extraordinary it seems almost impossible or supernatural.

Usage

• As an adjective describing quality: Used to express strong, positive admiration.
  • The weather was marvellous for our picnic.
  • She gave a marvellous performance on stage.
• As an adjective expressing astonishment: Used to describe something that is hard to believe.
  • It's marvellous how quickly the children learned the language.

Examples

Advanced Usage

• "a marvellous achievement": An accomplishment that is exceptionally impressive and admirable.
  • Completing the project ahead of schedule was a marvellous achievement for the team.
• Used as an intensifier: In informal British English, "marvellous" can be used as a general intensifier meaning "extremely good."
  • This cake is simply marvellous!

Variants and Related Words

• Marvel (noun): A wonderful or astonishing person or thing.
  • The Great Pyramid is an ancient marvel.
• Marvel (verb): To be filled with wonder or astonishment.
  • We marvelled at the beautiful sunset.
• Marvellously (adverb): In a marvellous manner.
  • The plan worked marvellously.

Synonyms

• Wonderful: Inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration.
• Fantastic: Extraordinarily good or attractive.
• Astonishing: Extremely surprising or impressive.
• Miraculous: Like a miracle; very surprising and fortunate.

Antonyms

• Ordinary: With no special or distinctive features; normal.
• Terrible: Extremely bad or serious.
• Unremarkable: Not particularly interesting or surprising.

Idioms and Phrases

• A marvellous turn of events: A surprisingly good and favorable change in a situation.
  • After all the problems, finding the lost documents was a marvellous turn of events.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. too improbable to admit of belief
   • a tall story
2. being or having the character of a miracle
3. extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
   • a fantastic trip to the Orient
   • the film was fantastic!
   • a howling success
   • a marvelous collection of rare books
   • had a rattling conversation about politics
   • a tremendous achievement

Từ đồng nghĩa

• improbable
• marvelous
• tall
• miraculous