fabulous
5
4.2
- adjective
- /ˈfæbjələs/
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increíble
- Appearing Tonight, the Fabulous Savannah Jones.
- fabulous wealth
- fabulous story
So Al Gore went to Kyoto, the US said this is fabulous.
- So Al Gore went to Kyoto, the US said this is fabulous.
- I believe he came up with the singing Bush Randy and wrote those fabulous songs.
- Well, like Hubble, you know, which decided, OK, we've got some spare time, let's just stare in an area and then found the, you know, fabulous array of galaxies that it did.
- The ones who never yawn or say commonplace thing but burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles, exploding like spiders across the stars.
- If you're I, I have friends who were raised in fabulous wealth in Texas and they went on to be barefoot serving the homeless.
- But then meanwhile, stupidly, this is what is so fabulous about this story is she rolls the window down and does the you know, the fuck you finger.
- Now let's go into the fabulous prompts that we got from Allison Werthein.
- It's a boy and a horse on an island and it's fabulous.
- They created this mess for themselves and they still blame the world for not delivering on the Super fabulous life they feel entitled to.
- And I think there's a fabulous history and biography of tools being, being significant.
- I, I really want to add, I think I said it before, I will repeat that it's very rare to get a flawless fabulous proposal.
- It's some, it's some fabulous stories that I've heard, fabulous stories that they, I think about them all the time.
- I mean, well, my parents were fabulous, but I was my dad had two doctorates, medical doctor and APHD in theatre in English.
Examples
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It's like words can't describe how fabulous this dress is.
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Wouldn't it be fabulous if we somehow stayed in love for the rest of our lives?
Fiction book (1990) -
"No one ever said anything that fabulous."
Fiction book (1993) -
The buses were seen as this fabulous new technology.
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This ending has to be fabulous.
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Recently, I was hanging out with a past Cyber PR client who had a fabulous tale to tell.
Blog text (24) -
Because who could ever have dreamed up a place as unbelievably fabulous as Las Vegas, Nevada?
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Finally, someone finds him, completely delirious, rambling on about the fabulous gold strike.
Fiction book (1995) -
And it's this fabulous journey with all kinds of adventures and monsters and trips to the underworld and really interesting stuff, very heroic.
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The magician performed a fabulous trick that left the audience in awe.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very good and likely to make you feel happy or amazed
∞
1.0
Causing great surprise and admiration
∞
3.5
Very surprising or hard to believe
968
2.1
Very impressive and causing a strong feeling of wonder
859
3.8
Very unusual or much greater than usual
815
3.3
Very strong and often causing great damage
794
3.0
Very large or impressive
692
2.0
Very beautiful to look at
588
2.8
Unusual and easy to notice because it is different or surprising
299
3.9
Very impressive and beautiful in appearance or style
265
3.5
Very impressive and exciting to look at
253
3.6
Very beautiful and impressive in a way that makes people admire it
251
1.8
Very good and surprising in a way that pleases people
113
5.4
Very impressive and much better than normal
110
3.5
Very impressive and beautiful
60
5.8
Very impressive and causing strong surprise
30
3.2
Very impressive and grand in appearance or style
21
4.1
Very good and impressive
19
7.5
Very large or impressive in a way that surprises people
19
6.7
Very large or impressive in a way that amazes people
5
9.9
Very beautiful and impressive, like at a big party
2
2.8
Very impressive and exciting
1
4.1
Very impressive and making people feel amazed
1
5.5
Very impressive and much better than you expect
1
7.5
Very beautiful and impressive to look at
Very exciting and surprising to see
Very impressive and surprising in a strong informal way
Antonyms
How Impressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
fabulous = fable (semi-transparent) = fable + ous
The modern sense 'so extraordinary as to be almost unbelievable' is related to 'of or relating to fables' but has generalized and shifted to mean 'remarkable' or 'wonderful', so learners may not fully derive the precise modern evaluative sense from 'fable' alone.
Etymology
Fabulous comes from the Latin word fabula, which means 'story' and is the same root as fable. So if something is called fabulous, it is like a story you can hardly believe, very strange or hard to believe.