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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Legendary \Leg"end*a*ry\ (l[e^]j"[e^]n*d[asl]*r[y^]), adjective Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. ''Legendary writers.'' --Bp. Lloyd.
Legendary stories of nurses and old women. --Bourne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Legendary \Leg"end*a*ry\, noun [Cf. OF. legendaire, LL. legendarius.]
1. A book of legends; a tale or narrative.
Read the Countess of Pembroke's ''Arcadia,'' a gallant legendary full of pleasurable accidents. --James I.
2. One who relates legends. --Bp. Lavington.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
legendary
adjective
1: so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend; "the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers"
2: celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James" [syn: {fabled}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "legendary": acclaimed, acknowledged, admitted, allegoric, autobiographical, biographical, celebrated, chronologic, concocted, conventional, cooked-up, customary, distinguished, eminent, epic, established, exceptional, extraordinary, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, famed, famous, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, far-famed, far-heard, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, fixed, folk, forged, great, hagiographic, hallowed, handed down, hatched, heroic, historic, historied, historiographic, hoary, honored, illustrious, imaginary, immemorial, immortal, indescribable, ineffable, invented, inveterate, long-established, long-standing, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, marked, martyrologic, marvelous, much acclaimed, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, notable, noted, noteworthy, notorious, of long standing, of mark, of note, of the folk, oral, parabolic, phenomenal, popular, portentous, prescriptive, prodigious, prominent, put-up, received, recognized, remarkable, renowned, romantic, romanticized, rooted, storied, stupefying, stupendous, talked-about, talked-of, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, trumped-up, understood, unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, unwritten, venerable, well-known, wonderful, worshipful
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