marvelously
- adverb
- /ˈmɑrvələsli/
- US
- But more than anything else, it's a marvelously joyful way of getting to know the world, of getting to know it up close.
- marvelously beautiful
- marvelously complex
But the truth is we're we're just scratching the surface and yet the therapeutic outcomes are again just so marvellous, marvellously impressive.
- But the truth is we're we're just scratching the surface and yet the therapeutic outcomes are again just so marvellous, marvellously impressive.
- Ignoring all of that, this one not only has stagnated, it has stagnated marvelously.
Examples
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Oh, I thought you did marvelously.
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Well, you've succeeded marvelously.
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"We have our ways, General Lee." "Marvelously good ones they must be, too."
Fiction book (1992) -
But inside, way inside, he was marvelously beautiful.
Academic text (2011) -
Only her voice remained as marvelously clear as always:
Fiction book (1993) -
It's marvelously nice because of that property, much simpler than anything you can imagine.
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One of my graduate students and I did a study of those institutions and found marvelously good education going on there.
Academic text (2004) -
Billy had a wonderful voice, deep and resonant, and his laugh was marvelously responsive.
Fiction book (1999) -
You're doing marvelously well.
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You're doing marvelously well in your studies this semester.
Synonyms
In a way that looks or sounds very nice
To a very unusual or surprising degree
In a way that is very surprising and hard to believe
To a very large degree
In a way that causes surprise or wonder
In a very good and impressive way
To a much higher level than usual
To a very large degree
To do something in a very impressive or dramatic way
In a very beautiful or impressive way
To a very great degree
In a very pleasant way that makes you feel happy
In a way that makes people very surprised
To a very great degree
In a very impressive and successful way
In a very impressive and beautiful way
In a way that makes people feel respect
In a very good way that shows great skill
To a very high degree
In a very beautiful or impressive way
In a very impressive way
In a very good way that shows a lot of skill
In a very beautiful or amazing way
Making people feel very surprised
In a way that looks large and important
In a very beautiful and impressive way
In a very impressive way that makes people admire it
In a very beautiful and impressive way that amazes people
In a very impressive way that surprises people
In a very bright and impressive way
In a very large and impressive way
In a way that makes people feel great surprise and admiration
In a way that is much better than usual and impresses people
In a bright and beautiful way that impresses people
To a very high degree
In a very good and impressive way
Antonyms
How Well
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Marvelously comes from marvel, an old word that meant 'wonder' and is the same idea behind miracle, so to do something marvelously is to do it in a way that makes people feel 'wonder' or great surprise.