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Definition: THE MARVELOUS |
THE MARVELOUS1. That which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; that which is wonderful; -- opposed to the probable . Syn: Wonderful; astonishing; surprising; strange; improbable; incredible. Usage: Marvelous , Wonderful . We speak of a thing as wonderful when it awakens our surprise and admiration; as marvelous when it is so much out of the ordinary course of things as to seem nearly or quite incredible. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exaggeration | Verb: exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify; (expand); overestimate; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: THE MARVELOUS |
| English words defined with "THE MARVELOUS": fantastic ♦ howling ♦ marvellous, marvelous, Marvelousness ♦ rattling ♦ terrific, tremendous ♦ wonderful, wondrous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THE MARVELOUS": C Programmer's Disease, cargo cult programming ♦ Heart. (references) |
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Screenplays | What a wonderful thing a woman's hat is Somehow it seems to symbolize the marvelous complexity of her own personality. (Miss Jerry; writing credit: Alexander Black) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Marvelous Land of Oz (1987) L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981) The Marvelous Kung Fu (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The marvelous sauce.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1938) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration. |
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Expression using "THE MARVELOUS": deal in the marvelous. Additional references. | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-l-m-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: volumeters. | |
-3 letters: elastomer, elevators, emulators, heartsome, housemate, levatores, marvelous, overhates, overhauls, overheats, overmelts, salometer, trehalose, trueloves, vermouths, volumeter. | |
-4 letters: alehouse, armholes, aureoles, elevator, emulates, emulator, evolutes, halteres, hamulose, haverels, hosteler, humerals, leathers, levators, loathers, loveseat, molester, moulters, mouthers, oleaster, outhears, outraves, outserve, outshame, overeats, overhate, overhaul, overheat, overlate, overlets, overlush, overmelt, oversale, oversalt. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 45 4D 41 52 56 45 4C 4F 55 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001101 01000001 01010010 01010110 01000101 01001100 01001111 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H E   M A R V E L O U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0045 004D 0041 0052 0056 0045 004C 004F 0055 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5442392473552563946495553 |
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