Marvel
['mɑːv(ə)l] or ['mɑrvl]
Definition
(n.) That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
(n.) Wonder.
(v. i.) To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder.
(v. t.) To marvel at.
(v. t.) To cause to marvel, or be surprised; -- used impersonally.
Checker: Michelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wonder, prodigy, miracle.
v. n. Wonder, be surprised, be astonished.
Typed by Alphonse
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wonder, prodigy, admiration, portent, miracle, astonishment, amazement,phenomenon
ANT:Incuriosity, unconcern, joke, trifle, farce, bagatelle, moonshine, cipher,drug, imposture, juggle
Typist: Malcolm
Definition
n. a wonder: anything astonishing or wonderful: astonishment.—v.i. to wonder: to feel astonishment:—pr.p. mar′velling; pa.t. and pa.p. mar′velled.—adj. Mar′vellous astonishing: almost or altogether beyond belief: improbable.—adv. Mar′vellously.—n. Mar′vellousness.
Checked by Hayes
Examples
- Once smelting was known to men, there is no great marvel in the finding of iron. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Prithee, John, what marvel dost thou find in that card? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- What a marvel, that Fernando, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This hood is of thick blue cloth, attached to a cloak of the same stuff, and is a marvel of ugliness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She really is a marvel. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As a sample story of adventure, Mr. McGowan's narrative is a marvel fit to be classed with the historic journeyings of the greatest travellers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So we must leave thee, thou marvel of the world; we must bid farewell to thy clouds, and cold, and scarcity for ever! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Still more I marvelled what those scenes and days could now have to do with me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Rawdon marvelled over his stories about school, and fights, and fagging. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hans carried them around with him in his map case all the time and still seemed marvelled and happy at the miracle of it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is hardly to be marvelled at that such views should elicit warm protest, summed up in the comment: Mr. Edison and many like him see in reverse the course of human progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Caroline marvelled at his humour, but still more at his entire self-possession. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No one can have marvelled more than I have done at the extinction of species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Who talks of the marvels of fiction? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- How else are these marvels of symmetry, cleanliness, and order attained? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They know nothing of sunrise or sunset, for they only see those marvels through a smoky veil. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This is one small sample of the vast accumulation of vulgar marvels that presently sprang up about the memory of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wondering at marvels of your own manufacture. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They are such touches of nature as the art of Defoe might have introduced when he wished to win credibility for marvels and apparitions. Plato. The Republic.
- That very man has it within him to mount, step by step, on each wonder he achieves to higher marvels still. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I was marvelling in my own mind how I could possibly have overlooked so obvious a clue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oliver complied; marvelling where the people could be found to read such a great number of books as seemed to be written to make the world wiser. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Typist: Nelda