miraculous

English

Adjective

miraculous (comparative more miraculous, superlative most miraculous)

1. Pertaining to miracles; referring to something that people can't explain.
   • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, BBC Sport:

     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.

2. By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god (only used when positive).

Related terms

• miracle

Translations

by supernatural or uncommon causes

• Asturian: milagrosu (ast)
• Bengali: অলৌকিক (bn)
• Breton: burzhudus (br)
• Catalan: miraculós (ca)
• Czech: zázračný (cs)
• Dutch: miraculeus (nl), verwonderlijk (nl)
• Estonian: imeline (et)
• Finnish: ihmeellinen (fi), ihmeenomainen (fi), käsittämätön (fi)
• French: miraculeux (fr)
• Galician: milagroso (gl)
• German: wundertätig (de)

• Greek: θαυματουργικός (el) (thavmaturjikós)
• Italian: miracoloso (it)
• Occitan: miraculós (oc), miraclós (oc)
• Persian: معجزه‌آسا (mo'jeze-asa)
• Portuguese: milagroso (pt)
• Romanian: miraculos (ro)
• Russian: чудотворный (ru) (čudotvórnyj), чудодейственный (ru) (čudodéjstvennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìorbhaileach (gd)
• Spanish: milagroso (es)
• Swedish: underbar (sv), mirakulös (sv), undergörande (sv)
• Welsh: gwyrth (cy)