legendary as an adjective: - 1
- 2
legendary
adjective
1 legendary
So celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend.
Roget 515:
imagined
etc.
v.;
ben trovato [It];
air drawn,
airbuilt†.
imagining
etc.
v.,
imaginative;
original,
inventive,
creative,
fertile.
romantic,
high flown,
flighty,
extravagant,
fanatic,
enthusiastic,
unrealistic,
Utopian,
Quixotic.
ideal,
unreal;
in the clouds,
in nubibus [Lat.];
unsubsantial†
etc.
4;
illusory
etc.
(fallacious)
495.
fabulous,
legendary;
mythical,
mythic,
mythological;
chimerical;
imaginary,
visionary;
notional;
fancy,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fantastical†;
whimsical;
fairy,
fairy-like;
gestic†.
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Roget 594:
descriptive,
graphic,
narrative,
epic,
suggestive,
well-drawn;
historic;
traditional,
traditionary;
legendary;
anecdotic†,
storied;
described
etc.
v..
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Polish: legendarny
2 legendary
Celebrated in fable or legend:
— Legendary exploits of Jesse James.
synonym: fabled.
Moby thesaurus: acclaimed, acknowledged, admitted, allegoric, autobiographical, biographical, celebrated, chronologic, concocted, conventional, cooked-up, customary, distinguished, eminent, epic, established, exceptional, extraordinary, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, famed, famous, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, far-famed, far-heard, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, fixed, folk, forged, great, hagiographic, hallowed, handed down, hatched, heroic, historic, historied, historiographic, hoary, honored, illustrious, imaginary, immemorial, immortal, indescribable, ineffable, invented, inveterate, long-established, long-standing, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, marked, martyrologic, marvelous, much acclaimed, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, notable, noted, noteworthy, notorious, of long standing, of mark, of note, of the folk, oral, parabolic, phenomenal, popular, portentous, prescriptive, prodigious, prominent, put-up, received, recognized, remarkable, renowned, romantic, romanticized, rooted, storied, stupefying, stupendous, talked-about, talked-of, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, trumped-up, understood, unexampled, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, unwritten, venerable, well-known, wonderful, worshipful ... show more.
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