 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fabulous
adjective
1: extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation" [syn: {fab}]
2: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual
basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the
fabulous unicorn" [syn: {mythic}, {mythical}, {mythologic},
{mythological}]
3: barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon
runner"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fabulous \Fab"u*lous\ (f[a^]b"[-u]*l[u^]s), adjective [L. fabulosus;
cf. F. fabuleux. See {Fable}.]
1. Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised;
invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous
description; a fabulous hero.
The fabulous birth of Minerva. --Chesterfield.
2. beyond belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
--Macaulay.
{Fabulous age}, that period in the history of a nation of
which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends;
as, the fabulous age of Greece and Rome. --
{Fab"u*lous*ly}, adverb -- {Fab"u*lous*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "fabulous":
a bit much, abandoned, ace, allegoric, amazing, appalling,
astonishing, astounding, beguiling, bewildering, boundless,
celebrated, concocted, conspicuous, cooked-up, cool, copacetic,
egregious, enigmatic, enormous, exaggerated, exceptional,
excessive, exorbitant, extraordinary, extravagant, extreme, fab,
fabled, fabricated, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantasied, fantastic,
fascinating, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, forged,
formidable, gigantic, gluttonous, great, groovy, hatched, high,
hot, howling, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, imaginary, immoderate,
incomprehensible, inconceivable, incontinent, incredible,
indescribable, ineffable, inordinate, intemperate, invented, keen,
legendary, made-up, magic, make-believe, manufactured, marked,
marvelous, miraculous, monstrous, mythic, mythical, mythicized,
mythified, mythological, mythopoeic, mythopoetic, neat, nonactual,
nonfactual, nonrealistic, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, of mark,
out of bounds, out of sight, outlandish, outrageous, outstanding,
overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch,
overweening, parabolic, passing strange, phenomenal, portentous,
preposterous, prodigious, put-up, puzzling, rare, rattling,
remarkable, romantic, romanticized, sensational, signal, smashing,
steep, stiff, storied, strange, striking, stupefying, stupendous,
super, superb, superior, terrific, thumping, thundering, too much,
trumped-up, unbelievable, unbridled, uncommon, unconscionable,
undue, unexampled, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unparalleled,
unprecedented, unreal, unreasonable, unrestrained, unspeakable,
whopping, wonderful, wondrous
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