marvellous
adjective
causing great wonder, surprise, etc; extraordinary
marvellousness
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a word derived from
marvellous.
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a word derived from
marvelous.
marvelousadjectivesuperb; excellent; great.
Example Sentences
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For the two decades after the second world war, there wasn't anyone who could touch us for engineering, innovation and all-round bloody marvellousness.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2012
Like many other things which befall us in daily life, dreams are so familiar a fact, that we often forget to wonder at the marvellousness of it all.
From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
She did not want to talk to this unpleasant-looking man, and what he told her about the crops and their marvellousness was half unintelligible to her and wholly a bore.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
In the eighteenth century indeed, grave English physicians, humanists who forgot how Aristotle had exclaimed that marvellousness lies in all natural phenomena, scorned the trivial curiosity of John Hunter respecting flies and tadpoles.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
I turned to him and spoke: 'Kind friend, I am yet dazed and stricken with the marvellousness of my being here.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap
