You may remember that I was distrait, and remained sitting after you had all alighted. I was marvelling in my own mind how I could possibly have overlooked so obvious a clue.
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Marvelling
Synonyms for "marvelling" (23 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Noun(5 words)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (11)
Noun(11 words)
dramatic emphasisgapepraiseremarkablereverencerhetorical astonishmentspectacularstunningwonderwondermentwonderstruck
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14 entriesaffective behavioraffective expressionaffective responsecognitive processcommunicationemotional expressionemotional responseemotional statefeelinglinguistic devicemental stateremarkable eventremarkable featrhetorical strategy
More specific
15 entriesadmirationamazementastonishedastonishing findingastonishmentaweawestruckdelightdramatic emphasisexclamatory emphasispraisespectacular breakthroughstunning resultwonderwonder-struck
Collocations
17 entriesact of marvellingadmirationamazementastonishmentawefeeling of wondermarvelling at naturemarvelling at the datamarvelling audiencemarvelling crowdmarvelling discoverymarvelling displaymarvelling gazemarvelling performancesense of marvellingstate of astonishment
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Inflections
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4 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.
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