legendary
Noun plurallegendaries
Plurallegendaries
- 1So amazingly great that people keep telling stories about it.
Like a sports star whose amazing plays everyone keeps talking about for years.
Her legendary kindness made the whole town love her.
The chef's cooking was so good it became legendary.
Similarfamous, renowned, celebrated, iconic, storied
Oppositeobscure, unknown, forgettable, unremarkable
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- 2Grand and wonderful, like something out of an old story.
Like a castle in a fairy tale, grand and full of wonder.
The palace was famous for its legendary splendor and golden halls.
She wore a gown of legendary elegance to the ball.
Similarfabled, fabulous, storied, magnificent
Oppositeordinary, unremarkable, modest
- 3Found only in old stories, not in real life.
Like a unicorn: something you only ever meet in stories.
The legendary dragon was said to guard the mountain.
Many legendary heroes never actually lived.
Similarmythical, fabled, mythological, fictitious, imaginary
Oppositehistorical, real, actual, factual
- 4Having to do with legends or old stories.
The course covered the legendary cycles of ancient Greece.
Scholars trace the legendary origins of the founding myth.
Similarmythological, mythic
Oppositehistorical
- 5A rare and very powerful Pokémon that is hard to catch.
Like the rarest, strongest card in a trading card game.
She finally caught a legendary after weeks of trying.
Some legendaries are almost impossible to find in the wild.
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Less common meanings
- 6An old book holding a set of stories about saints' lives.
Like a big book of bedtime stories, but all about saints.
The monk copied the legendary by candlelight each night.
Their library held several legendaries bound in leather.
Similarlegendarium
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- 7A person who tells old stories and legends to others.
Like a grandparent who loves telling old family stories.
The village legendary kept the children spellbound with his tales.
Traveling legendaries carried stories from town to town.
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Origin
It comes from 'legend' plus '-ary'. At first it was a noun meaning 'a collection of legends', from Latin 'legenda'. Both the noun and the adjective appeared in English in the 1500s.