fictitious, fabulous, legendary, mythical, apocryphal mean having the nature of something imagined or invented. fictitious implies fabrication and suggests artificiality or contrivance more than deliberate falsification or deception.

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LEGENDARY definition: 1. very famous and admired or spoken about: 2. from a legend: 3. very famous and admired or…. Learn more.

If you describe someone or something as legendary, you mean that they are very famous and that many stories are told about them.

legendary - celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James"

Definition of legendary adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

What does the word legendary mean? There are 12 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word legendary , five of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

legendary: Of, based on, or discussed in legend.

It's one thing to be famous. It's another thing altogether to be legendary, or like a legend. The Monkees were a famous band. The Beatles are legendary — for most people, they are almost mythical in their greatness.

Legendary definition: Of, based on, or discussed in legend.