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legendary

adj. so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend; "the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers"

fabled, legendary

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

immortal

adj. not subject to death

celebrated, remembered

adj. having an illustrious past

amazing, astonishing

adj. surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"

terrific

adj. very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle"

fantastic

adj. extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance; "Gaudi's fantastic architecture"

celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned

adj. widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"

distinguished

adj. (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor"

eminent, high

adj. standing above others in quality or position; "people in high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the community"

salient

adj. (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees

ill-famed, infamous, notorious

adj. known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

appreciated, apprehended, comprehended

adj. fully understood or grasped; "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"

best-known

adj. most familiar or renowned; "Stevenson's best-known work is probably `Treasure Island'"

better-known, better known

adj. more familiar or renowned than the other of two: "the better known book of the two"

celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned

adj. widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"

familiar

adj. "the limits of the known world"

identified

adj. having the identity known or established; "the identified bodies were released for burial"

proverbial

adj. widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

well-known, well known

adj. frequently experienced; known closely or intimately; "a long-familiar face"; "a well-known voice reached her ears"

deceptive, delusory

adj. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

dreamlike, surreal

adj. resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"

eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil(a)

adj. creating the illusion of seeing reality; "the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"

fictive

adj. capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"

fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological

adj. based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn"

fanciful

adj. having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"

hallucinatory

adj. characterized by or characteristic of hallucination ; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford

illusional, illusionary

adj. marked by or producing illusion; "illusionary stage effects"

illusive, illusory

adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

fanciful, imaginary, notional

adj. not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

make-believe, pretend

adj. imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"

phantom

adj. something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"

unknown

adj. not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source"

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

historical

adj. having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary; "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events"

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