Word Meanings - LEGENDARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends; consisting of legends; like a legend; fabulous. "Legendary writers." Bp. Lloyd. Legendary stories of nurses and old women. Bourne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEGENDARY)

• Apocryphal
• Obscure
• doubtful
• unauthorized
• unauthentic
• spurious
• legendary
• uncertain
• unauthenticated
• unverified

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LEGENDARY)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to LEGENDARY)

• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• DISCOVERER
  1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• DISCOVERT
  Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
• APOCRYPHALNESS
  The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness.
• APOCRYPHALIST
  One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha.
• DOUBTFULNESS
  1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
• OBSCUREMENT
  The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.
• OBSCURE
  Obscurity. Milton.
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• LEGENDARY
  1. A book of legends; a tale or parrative. Read the Countess of Pembroke's "Arcadia," a gallant legendary full of pleasurable accidents. James I. 2. One who relates legends. Bp. Lavington.
• DOUBTFUL
  1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
• DISCOVERY DAY
  = Columbus Day, above.
• REVEAL
  1. To make known ; to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• INDISCOVERY
  Want of discovery.
• CLARE-OBSCURE
  See CHIAROSCURO
• UNKNOWN
  Not known; not apprehended. -- Un*known"ness, n. Camden.