Word Meanings - FABULOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: FABULOUS

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 Greek and Rome. -- Fab"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Fab"u*lous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FABULOUS)

• Romantic
• Fabulous
• rhapsodical
• wild
• extravagant
• fanciful
• fictitious
• sentimental
• Visionary
• Fanciful
• dreamy
• chimerical
• baseless
• shadowy
• imaginary
• unreal
• fabulous
• romantic

Related words: (words related to FABULOUS)

• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• EXTRAVAGANT
  + vagance, , p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak. 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained;
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• UNREALLY
  In an unreal manner; ideally.
• UNREALIZE
  To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.
• CHIMERICALLY
  Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
• UNREAL
  Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• FANCIFUL
  1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
• SENTIMENTALIZE
  To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
• ROMANTICNESS
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.
• SENTIMENTALITY
  The quality or state of being sentimental.
• UNREALITY
  The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• HYDROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by water.
• REVISIONAL; REVISIONARY
  Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.