(a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.
(a.) Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
Example Sentences:
(1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(2) So you can assure young Miss Paulus that it is very possible to be warm and fabulously fashionable at the same time, as this season is all about how to wear as many vests as possible under a loose tunic dress before you begin to take on the dimensions of the Michelin man.
(3) The book also featured Lola Montez, the fabulous beauty of the age, and her lover Ludwig, the mad King of Bavaria.
(4) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
(5) This happened to be these clocks that Salvador had made for decoration, and Francis and Sonny got so nervous they started eating them, these fabulous candy clocks."
(6) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) Fabulous balls-up 2.
(7) Taken together, these myriad aspects add up to create a fabulously singular and peerless holistic experience that stands alone in its creativity and innovation,” organisers said.
(8) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
(9) Indeed, lavish media approval of a scheme so fabulously harebrained as Fiennes's can't but suggest continued respect for a version of masculinity that will always reject domesticity and grandmothers in favour of all-male challenges in the Antarctic, or at the golf club, or, failing that, at the House of Commons.
(10) He's never too far off the pages of the Sunday supplements and celebrity columns, thanks to his wife, Nigella, and is also fabulously connected to Britain's media and political elites.
(11) Remember its fabulously profitable printer inks, which cost more pro rate than champagne?
(12) He breathed new life into a somewhat static side, heading their second equaliser from a corner, almost scoring with a fabulously audacious shot and then creating what seemed to be the winner for Mike Williamson.
(13) And then, mercifully, I discovered How to Be a Woman, a blistering war-cry of a book urging girls to hurl celery into the bin, "give up on the idea of being fabulous" and instead revel in our glorious imperfections.
(14) And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
(15) The Kalgoorlie-Boulder-Kambalda area in arid inland Western Australia receives its water supply from distant Perth, through a pipeline constructed in the fabulous goldrush period at the turn of the century.
(16) To see so many homegrown players was fabulous, too.
(17) London's garden bridge: will 'tiara on the head of fabulous city' ever be built?
(18) That's not the case Kieran Hodgson But fraudulence is the Armstrong modus operandi as Hodgson’s show – which plays fabulous games with truth and fiction – acknowledges.
(19) Few Russians have much time for the oligarchs , who became fabulously wealthy during the 1990s while most people lived in poverty.
(20) Distance 6 miles (9.7km) Classification Moderate Duration 3 hours Begins Bathwick Hill OS grid reference ST765640 Walk in a nutshell A moderately long but well-marked circular walk with fabulous views of Bath.
Marvelous
Definition:
(n.) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
(n.) Partaking of the character of miracle, or supernatural power; incredible.
Example Sentences:
(1) You marvelled at how easy it was to live two very different lives side by side.
(2) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
(3) The infrastructure of New York that was once an "engineering marvel" is now a "liability", he said, urging a long-term rethink.
(4) Any future movie will have to fit into a schedule that includes future Star Trek instalments for Pegg and Wright's long-gestating Ant Man movie for Marvel.
(5) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(6) Tottenham had by far the best of the chances but either their own tension in front of goal or the marvels of Howard intervened.
(7) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
(8) The store, with its marvellous window displays, was as influential as her books would eventually be, pioneering a new generation of shops devoted exclusively to kitchenware.
(9) Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864-November 1865) Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambition.
(10) There is also a precedent for the disappearance of Captain America, currently played by Chris Evans , from the Marvel universe.
(11) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
(12) While his organising framework was Marxian (beginning as "an attempt to understand the arts", as he said himself), the subjects included mountain-climbing, opera, jazz and sartorial and eating fashions as well as work patterns, class solidarity and the movements of international finance – all delivered in a marvellously flexible and pungent style.
(13) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
(14) "If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing," said Evans.
(15) This was, as the German said, “spectacular, wild football” featuring marvellous attacking and slapdash defending.
(16) Click here to watch It has been reported elsewhere that Star Wars could be packaged in line with the studio's Marvel universe, which successfully delivered a series of comic book films focusing on individual superheroes before bringing them all together for the $1.5bn box office hit The Avengers earlier this year.
(17) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
(18) At the heart of it, Djinguereber was and remains a marvel of architecture where, when 2,000 people line up for prayers on a Friday, you feel the greatness of God and Islam in your soul.” Miraculously, the mosque was only slightly damaged by the Islamist groups - led by al-Qaida and Ansar Dine - who occupied Timbuktu in 2012.
(19) I suppose occasionally she may have spoken brusquely to one or two people who wanted more respect, but the job of the prime minister’s chief of staff is to be strong, it’s to be tough, it’s to be focused and she did an absolutely marvellous job.” Abbott said he did not want to criticise the new treasurer, Scott Morrison, whom he accused last week of “badly misleading people” by claiming he had warned Abbott’s office on the Friday before the leadership challenge to be on high alert.
(20) A computer server isn’t a marvel of modern technology.