What's the difference between fabulous and unbelievable?

Fabulous


Definition:

  • (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.

Unbelievable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is unbelievable that he would continue to say that, but he says it.
  • (2) An unbelievably convenient boost to demand in this country – and indeed to all economies that are major importers of oil – has come in the nick of electoral time from the halving of the world price of crude.
  • (3) 'The smell had become unbelievably bad by then', she said.
  • (4) The extensive surveillance, phone records and the evidence of the couriers made their denials unbelievable.
  • (5) It’s an unbelievable privilege and unbelievable responsibility to take a jewel and treat it in a way that is respectful of its past but brings it into the future.” Fortunately for both men, the signs are positive.
  • (6) Hotels are an easy option, often patronised by individuals who can be depicted as “unbelievers”, or representatives of the so-called Crusader-Zionist alliance so hated by the extremists, and usually poorly protected too.
  • (7) PhDs require funding, and veterinary nursing is unbelievably oversubscribed.
  • (8) "Unbelievable jobs numbers… these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers," he said on Twitter .
  • (9) Gravett and others who lived through DADT told the Guardian that so much had changed since the repeal, though the past feels unbelievable at times.
  • (10) "People seem shocked that we're going home, but what happened up there was unbelievable.
  • (11) While the search continued her son Adam Fawell, 29, told the Yorkshire Evening Post: “The support we are getting from friends and family is unbelievable and the stuff that is going around generally is incredible and a little bit overwhelming.” Elaine McIver, 43 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elaine McIver The family of Elaine McIver confirmed on Thursday that she had been killed in the blast on Monday.
  • (12) It was an unbelievable feeling,” Keating told Associated Press, adding she felt “totally blessed and loved” by the pope.
  • (13) Yes, Khodorkovsky has been very unlucky in his fate, but we, his compatriots, have been unbelievably lucky: the party of human dignity is today embodied by an individual who conducts himself in a model fashion and does not bend or break under pressure.
  • (14) Alfredo Serrano (@TheAlfrigerator) Papi is unbelievable.
  • (15) It was very strange, almost unbelievable," he says.
  • (16) Friedman said conservative social scientists and economists who testified for Michigan were "unbelievable" and "clearly represent a fringe viewpoint".
  • (17) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
  • (18) Ftis said: “What I saw last night, it’s unbelievable.
  • (19) We are unbelievably sophisticated at that.” His most celebrated work, the remaking of Berlin’s bombed-out Neues Museum , which opened in 2009 after a decade of work he called “an unbelievably positive experience”, was based on a serious debate about meaning that he finds lacking in Britain.
  • (20) "The scene is just unbelievable," a witness told the Guardian.