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Antonyms for marvel

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : mahr-vuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɑr vəl


Definition of marvel

Origin :
  • c.1300, "miracle," also "wonderful story or legend," from Old French merveille "a wonder, surprise, miracle," from Vulgar Latin *miribilia (also source of Spanish maravilla, Portuguese maravilha, Italian maraviglia), altered from Latin mirabilia "wonderful things," from neuter plural of mirabilis "wonderful, marvelous, extraordinary; strange, singular," from mirari "to wonder at," from mirus "wonderful" (see smile). A neuter plural treated in Vulgar Latin as a feminine singular. Related: Marvels.
  • noun wonder
  • verb be amazed
Example sentences :
  • I marvel at the sense of duty, the resignation, the sacrifice.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • But don't you marvel at me too much, for I'm a very good sort of fellow when you know me.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • But that's that braggart, major Marvel—and a marvel he is, I can tell you!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • The bed was a marvel of pink and white drapery; so was the dressing-bureau.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • "Nor can I marvel at that," said she, with a little tinkling laugh.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • My voice was a marvel even to myself, so rich and full and musical!
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • The only thing at which she wondered was the slowness of the working of the marvel.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • It is marvel if in these earthly banquets there be not some lack.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • We marvel that we had no prescience of these, and that we did not attain to them sooner.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
  • How Gerald and Tod contrived to do their lessons amidst it was a marvel to every one.
  • Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

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