fabulous
Definition of fabulous:
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part of speech: adjective
The fabulous age of a country is that period in its early history of which the accounts are mostly history of which the accounts are mostly mythical or legendary, recording chiefly the fabulous achievements of heroes; as, the fabulous age of Greece and Rome.
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part of speech: adjective
Full of fables, pretended or feigned; fictitious.
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part of speech: adjective
Feigned as a story; devised; fictitious; invented; not real; exceeding the bounds of probability or reason; as, a fabulous story; a fabulous description; a fabulous hero; the fabulous exploits of Hercules; that can hardly be received as truth; incredible; as, the picture was sold at a fabulous price; " He found that the waste of the servants hall was almost fabulous."- Macaulay.
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Common misspellings:
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- faboulos (1.0%)
- suberb (0.1%)
- fabulas (4.3%)
- fabulose (1.2%)
- fabulos (9.8%)
- fabilous (0.7%)
- fabolus (1.6%)
- fabulouslcobble (0.3%)
- fabolous (13.5%)
- faboulous (22.3%)
- fab (0.5%)
- fabulus (4.5%)
- favulous (0.7%)
- faulous (0.7%)
- fabluous (0.5%)
- fabuous (2.1%)
- fablous (11.0%)
- fabukous (0.3%)
- faboulours (0.3%)
- fabalous (1.4%)
- fabuolus (0.3%)
- febulous (0.3%)
- faboulus (3.4%)
- faboulas (0.5%)
- fabulouse (6.9%)
- fabuloous (0.3%)
- fabulious (3.1%)
- fabulour (0.4%)
- fabuluse (0.3%)
- bulous (0.3%)
- fabuolous (1.3%)
- fabulaous (1.2%)
- fabulolus (0.3%)
- fabulish (0.3%)
- faboules (0.5%)
- fablious (2.8%)
- fabelous (0.3%)
- fabulois (0.3%)
- fablose (0.3%)
- fabul (0.3%)
- fbulous (0.3%)
Usage examples for fabulous:
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Oh- but lately I have not been crossed so, of course, with those fabulous terrors- lately that horror of the burning mountain has grown more like a superstition than a rational fear!
"The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846" – Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett -
I believe she paid a fabulous sum for it; Maryon's all the rage now, you know.
"The Moon out of Reach" – Margaret Pedler -
To be sure, the accounts of prosperity might well sound fabulous to the toilers and moilers at home.
"Chantry House" – Charlotte M. Yonge
