legendary

legendary
    adj 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}, {legendary}]
    

Legendary \Leg"end*a*ry\ (l[e^]j"[e^]n*d[asl]*r[y^]), a.
   Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of
   legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." --Bp.
   Lloyd.
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         Legendary stories of nurses and old women. --Bourne.
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Legendary \Leg"end*a*ry\, n. [Cf. OF. legendaire, LL.
   legendarius.]
   1. A book of legends; a tale or narrative.
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            Read the Countess of Pembroke's "Arcadia," a gallant
            legendary full of pleasurable accidents. --James I.
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   2. One who relates legends. --Bp. Lavington.
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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