Fabulous

fabulous
    adj 1: extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation" [syn:
           {fabulous}, {fab}]
    2: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual
       basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the
       fabulous unicorn" [syn: {fabulous}, {mythic}, {mythical},
       {mythologic}, {mythological}]
    3: barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon
       runner"
    

Fabulous \Fab"u*lous\ (f[a^]b"[-u]*l[u^]s), a. [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.
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            The fabulous birth of Minerva.        --Chesterfield.
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   2. Beyond belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
      --Macaulay.
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   3. Exceptionally good; extremely pleasing. [informal]
      [PJC]

   {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}, adv. -- {Fab"u*lous*ness}, n.
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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