Miraculous vs Incredible - What's the difference?
miraculous | incredible | Synonyms |
Pertaining to miracles; referring to something that people can't explain.
* {{quote-news
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By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god (only used when positive).
Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.
* 1980 September 16, (w), quoted in William A. Schwartz et al., The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn’t Matter—And What Does , University of California Press (1990, 1993), ISBN 0-520-06134-9,
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 796:
Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
Marvelous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.
As adjectives the difference between miraculous and incredible
is that miraculous is pertaining to miracles; referring to something that people can't explain while incredible is too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.miraculous
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=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.}}
incredible
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Adjective
(en adjective)page 29:
- I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.
- He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.
- He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.
- I had such an incredible slice of pizza last night that I simply can't think about anything else.