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Miracle

n.hopeful, joyfulwarm

What it means

An extraordinary and welcome event that inspires wonder or gratitude.

Reach for it when describing a highly unlikely positive outcome, with or without a religious claim

Finding the child safe after the storm felt like a miracle to the searchers.

Choose between these

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  • everyday

    godsend

    when timely help arrives in a desperate situation

    not when Godsend is religious in origin and informal; it usually describes help, not any wonder.

  • everyday

    stroke of luck

    when chance explains an unexpectedly favorable outcome

    not when Luck excludes divine interpretation and can trivialize survival or recovery.

  • warm

    astonishing success

    when a result greatly exceeds realistic expectation

    not when Success centers achievement and may erase chance, help, or loss.

  • warm

    blessing

    when a welcome benefit is understood through gratitude or faith

    not when Blessing carries religious meaning and can be uncomfortable outside that framework.

  • warm

    wonder

    when an extraordinary thing inspires admiration and curiosity

    not when Wonder does not imply an unlikely event or divine action.

  • professional

    breakthrough

    when a major advance follows sustained work

    not when Breakthrough credits development, so it misfits an event attributed mainly to chance.

  • professional

    extraordinary event

    when neutral language should avoid a supernatural claim

    not when The phrase is factual but loses gratitude and wonder.

  • formal

    near-impossibility

    when extreme improbability is the main point

    not when The phrase is analytical and does not express the welcome nature of the outcome.

  • literary

    marvel

    for something astonishing because of its excellence or design

    not when Marvel often credits human or natural qualities rather than improbable rescue.

Said against

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  • disaster
  • calamity
  • ordinary event

It naturally appears in

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  • small miracle

    Keeping every seedling alive through the frost was a small miracle.

  • medical miracle

    The family called the unexpected recovery a medical miracle.

  • nothing short of a miracle

    Their safe arrival seemed nothing short of a miracle after the bridge failed.

  • believe in miracles

    The song asks whether tired people can still believe in miracles.

Where this comes from

Miracle can assert divine intervention or work figuratively. Do not impose either interpretation on someone else's survival, illness, or faith.

The definition and the example on this page are written here. The dictionaries above ground which meaning is being described, not the wording.