miraculous

English

Etymology

From Middle French miraculeux. Displaced native Old English wundorlīċ.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /mɪˈɹæk.jʊ.ləs/, /mɪˈɹæk.jə.ləs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈɹæk.jə.ləs/
• Hyphenation: mi‧rac‧u‧lous

Adjective

miraculous (comparative more miraculous, superlative most miraculous)

1. By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god; that cannot be explained in terms of normal events.
2. Very surprising; amazing.
   • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.

Derived terms

• miraculous berry
• miraculous fruit
• miraculously
• miraculousness

Related terms

• miracle

Translations

by supernatural or uncommon causes

• Arabic: خَارِق (ḵāriq), مُعْجِز (muʕjiz)
• Asturian: milagrosu
• Bengali: অলৌকিক (bn) (olōukik)
• Breton: burzhudus (br)
• Bulgarian: чудотворен (bg) (čudotvoren)
• Catalan: miraculós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奇妙的, 神奇的

• Czech: zázračný
• Dutch: miraculeus (nl), verwonderlijk (nl), wonderbaarlijk (nl)
• Estonian: imeline
• Faroese: undurfullur, undursamur
• Finnish: ihmeellinen (fi), ihmeenomainen, käsittämätön (fi)
• French: miraculeux (fr)
• Galician: milagroso, milagreiro
• German: wundertätig (de), mirakulös (de), Wunder- (de)
• Greek: θαυματουργικός (el) (thavmatourgikós)

  Ancient: θαυμαστός (thaumastós)

• Irish: míorúilteach
• Italian: miracoloso (it)
• Macedonian: чудо́творен (čudótvoren), чу́десен (čúdesen)
• Malayalam: അത്ഭുതകരമായ (atbhutakaramāya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mirakuløs

  Nynorsk: mirakuløs

• Occitan: miraculós, miraclós
• Old English: wundorlīċ
• Persian: معجزه‌آسا (fa) (mo'jeze-asa)
• Portuguese: milagroso (pt)
• Romanian: miraculos (ro)
• Russian: чудотво́рный (ru) (čudotvórnyj), чудоде́йственный (ru) (čudodéjstvennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhaileach
• Spanish: milagroso
• Swedish: underbar (sv), mirakulös (sv), undergörande
• Welsh: gwyrth (cy)