Fabulous FABULOUS, a.
1. Feigned, as a story; devised; fictitious; as a fabulous story; a fabulous description.
2. Related in fable; described or celebrated in fables; invented; not real; as a fabulous hero; the fabulous exploits of Hercules.
3. The fabulous age of Greece and Rome, was the early age of those countries, the accounts of which are mostly fabulous, or in which the fabulous achievements of their heroes were performed; called also the heroic age.

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 1546, from L. fabulosus "celebrated in fable," from fabula (see fable). From "mythical," sense of "incredible" first recorded 1609. Slang shortening fab first recorded 1957; popularized in reference to The Beatles, c.1963. "Fabulous (often contracted to fab(s)) and fantastic are also in that long list of words which boys and girls use for a time to express high commendation and then get tired of, such as, to go no farther back than the present century, topping, spiffing, ripping, wizard, super, posh, smashing." [Fowler, 1965]

fabulous adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fabulosus, from fabula Date: 15th century 1. a. resembling or suggesting a fable ; of an incredible, astonishing, or exaggerated nature <fabulous wealth> b. wonderful, marvelous <had a fabulous time> 2. told in or based on fable Synonyms: see fictitious • fabulously adverb • fabulousness noun

fabulous
adj.
1 incredible, exaggerated, absurd (fabulous wealth).
2 colloq. marvellous (looking fabulous).
3 a celebrated in fable. b legendary, mythical.
Derivatives:
fabulosity n. fabulously adv. fabulousness n.
Etymology: F fabuleux or L fabulosus (as FABLE)

fabulous If you describe something as fabulous, you are emphasizing that you like it a lot or think that it is very good. (INFORMAL) This is a fabulous album. It's fresh, varied, fun... The scenery and weather were fabulous. = wonderful ADJ [emphasis]

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. The fabulous birth of Minerva. --Chesterfield. 2. Passing 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, adv. -- Fab"u*lous*ness, n.

fabulous a. Invented, feigned, fictitious, unreal, fabricated, coined.

fabulous ˈfæbjuləs adj. 1 fabled, mythic(al), celebrated, legendary, storied, fictitious, fictional, unreal, fanciful, imaginary, story-book, fairy-tale: Greek mythology tells us of a fabulous winged horse called Pegasus. 2 fantastic, marvellous, incredible, unbelievable, inconceivable, wonderful, astounding, astonishing, amazing, wondrous, extraordinary, miraculous, phenomenal: Houses in London were selling at fabulous prices. 3 superb, marvellous, terrific, great, wonderful, Colloq great, super, smashing, thumping, whopping, thundering, rattling, howling, US neat, keen, Slang fab, hot, far-out, cool, Old-fashioned fantabulous, in the groove, groovy, ace, Brit magic, US and Canadian copacetic: I saw an absolutely fabulous new film the other night.

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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