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Spell Bee Word: marvellous


Basic Details

Word: Marvellous

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Extremely good, pleasing or wonderful.

Synonyms: wonderful, splendid, superb, fabulous

Antonyms: dreadful, awful, terrible

How to Spell Marvellous

Syllables: mar - vel - lous

Tricky part: British spelling doubles the l before ous (marvel + l + ous), and the ending is ous, not us.

Watch out for: marvelus, marvellus, marvallous

Memory tip: In British spelling the l of marvel doubles when an ending is added, the same thing that happens in travel, travelling.

Usage Examples

Example 1: We had a marvellous time at the Hornbill Festival in Nagaland.

Example 2: What a marvellous idea to plant trees along the school wall.

Example 3: The magician's marvellous tricks left everyone gasping.

Fun Fact

Marvel comes from Latin mirabilia, 'wonderful things', from the same root that gives miracle and admire.

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Word Connection

Choose the word opposite in meaning to marvellous as used in the sentence:

The dancers gave a marvellous performance of Kathak at the music festival.

a) splendid
b) dreadful
c) superb
d) wonderful

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b) dreadful. The three other words praise the show, while dreadful says it was very bad.

Spell-o-Spell

Only one word in the list is spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of that word.

1. mischievious 2. marvellous 3. humourus 4. rebelious

a) fond of playful trouble-making
b) resisting authority or control
c) funny and amusing
d) extremely good or wonderful

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d) extremely good or wonderful. Rebellious needs ll, mischievous has no i after the v, and humorous drops the u of humour: only marvellous is correct.

Mingle-Mangle

Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:

Grandma makes a lusvemalor lemon pickle every summer.

a) marvels
b) marvelling
c) marvellous
d) marvelled

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c) marvellous. Only marvellous has the ous ending that the o, u and s in the jumble call for.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A marvellous meal is ____.

a) tasteless
b) very good
c) burnt
d) too small

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b) very good

2. Which word could replace marvellous in 'What a marvellous view of the hills'?

a) ordinary
b) wonderful
c) gloomy
d) narrow

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b) wonderful

Associated Words

softlyspeculationattendingamelioratehappening
destitutedistrustfuldelugeluckyshot

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