fabulous
/icons/point.icon FICTITIOUS, FABULOUS, LEGENDARY, MYTHICAL, APOCRYPHAL mean having the nature of something imagined or invented.
FICTITIOUS implies fabrication and suggests artificiality or contrivance more than deliberate falsification or deception.
e.g. fictitious characters
FABULOUS stresses the marvelous or incredible character of something without necessarily implying impossibility or actual nonexistence.
e.g. a land of fabulous riches
LEGENDARY suggests the elaboration of invented details and distortion of historical facts produced by popular tradition.
e.g. the legendary exploits of Davy Crockett
MYTHICAL implies a purely fanciful explanation of facts or the creation of beings and events out of the imagination.
e.g. mythical creatures
APOCRYPHAL implies an unknown or dubious source or origin or may imply that the thing itself is dubious or inaccurate.
e.g. a book that repeats many apocryphal stories
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adjective
extraordinary, especially extraordinarily large:
｟かたく/文｠ 〖名詞の前で〗途方もない; 信じられないほどの; 驚くべき〈量･大きさ･値段など〉
e.g. fabulous riches.
informal amazingly good; wonderful:
｟くだけて｠ (信じられないほど)すばらしい, とてもよい
e.g. a fabulous two-week vacation.
having no basis in reality; mythical:
｟かたく/文｠ 〖名詞の前で〗伝説, 神話上の; 架空の, 空想上の.
e.g. fabulous creatures.
DERIVATIVES
fabulosity | ˌfabyəˈläsədē | noun
fabulousness noun
ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense ‘known through fable’): from French fabuleux or Latin fabulosus ‘celebrated in fable’, from fabula (see fable).