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| Main Entry: | miracle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wonderful, surprising event or thing |
| Synonyms: | marvel, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, rarity, revelation, sensation, surprise, wonder, stunner, supernatural occurrence, thaumaturgy, unusualness |
| Antonyms: | normalcy, usualness |
| Main Entry: | marvel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wonder |
| Synonyms: | curiosity, genius, miracle, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, sensation, whiz, one for the books, something else, stunner |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, spectacle, one for the books, rara avis, something else, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | prodigy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or thing that is extraordinary |
| Synonyms: | brain*, curiosity, enormity, freak*, genius, intellect, marvel, mastermind, miracle, monster, natural, phenomenon, portent, rare bird*, rarity, sensation, spectacle, talent, whiz*, whiz kid*, wizard, wonder, child genius, one in a million, stunner, wonder child, wunderkind |
| Notes: | prodigy refers to a person with exceptional talents, protégé is a male who is guided or helped by someone, and protégée is the female version |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something amazing; state of amazement |
| Synonyms: | amazement, astonishment, attack, awe, bewilderment, consternation, curiosity, disappointment, disillusion, fortune, godsend*, incredulity, jolt*, kick*, marvel, miracle, phenomenon, portent, precipitation, prodigy, rarity, revelation, shock, start, stupefaction, unexpected, unforeseen, whammy*, wonder, wonderment, abruptness, astoundment, bombshell, curveball, epiphany, eureka, eye-opener, miscalculation, precipitance, precipitousness, suddenness, thunderbolt* |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder, conjuncture |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something wonderful or awe-inspiring |
| Synonyms: | agitation, bomb*, commotion, excitement, flash, furor, hit, marvel, miracle, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, scandal, stir, surprise, thrill, wonder, wow*, bombshell, stunner |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wonder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that is amazing |
| Synonyms: | act of God*, curiosity, freak, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, oddity, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, rarity, sensation, sight, spectacle, wonderment, cynosure, rara avis, stunner |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blessing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
| Synonyms: | asset, benediction, benefit, boon, bounty, break, favor, gain, gift, godsend, good, good luck, help, kindness, lucky break, manna from heaven*, miracle, profit, service, stroke of luck*, windfall, good fortune |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, curse, disadvantage, bad fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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