Word Meanings - MARVEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens

Additional info about word: MARVEL

wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens marvel." Sir W. Scott. Marvel of Peru. See Four-o'clock.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MARVEL)

• Amazement
• astonishment
• awe
• wonder
• bewilderment
• surprise
• stupefication
• marvel
• Astonishment
• Wonder
• amazement
• admiration
• stupefaction
• fascination
• Curiosity
• Inquisitiveness
• interest
• interrogativeness
• rarity
• phenomenon
• celebrity
• oddity
• lion
• Monster
• Prodigy
• portent
• deformity
• abnormity
• fright
• colossus
• monstrosity
• leviathan
• fiend
• brute
• Romance
• Fable
• fiction
• novel
• rhapsody
• rodomontade
• gasconade
• balderdash

Related words: (words related to MARVEL)

• GASCONADER
  A great boaster; a blusterer.
• NOVELRY
  Novelty; new things. Chaucer.
• BRUTENESS
  1. Brutality. Spenser. 2. Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• WONDER
  Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson.
• NOVEL
  News; fresh tidings. Some came of curiosity to hear some novels. Latimer. 3. A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love. Dryden.
• LEVIATHAN
  1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned on other passages of Scripture. Note: It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent. 2. The whale, or a great
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• INTERESTED
  1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• FRIGHT
  forhta, OHG. forhta, forahta, G. furcht, Dan. frygt, Sw. fruktan, 1. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm. 2. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing
• FRIGHTFULNESS
  The quality of being frightful.
• FRIGHTFULLY
  In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• FRIGHTEN
  To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym:
• STUPEFACTION
  The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.
• NOVELTY
  1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
• SURPRISE
  1. The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise. 2. The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• INCURIOSITY
  Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.
• RENOVELANCE
  Renewal. Chaucer.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• AFFRIGHTFUL
  Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.
• IMBRUTE
  To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. (more info) Etym:
• EFFABLE
  Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. Barrow.