fabulouslyadv.
/ˈfabjᵿləsli/, U.S. /ˈfæbjələsli/ In a fabulous manner or degree.
1. After the manner of a fable or fiction; as in a fable.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [adverb]
fabulously1598
mythologicly1611
mythologically1659
romanticly1681
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales vi. vii. 131 These things are vncertaine, and fabulously augmented.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. Illustr. 122 Giants..fabulously supposed begotten by Spirits vpon Dioclesians or Danaus daughters.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vi. 295 This they terme mythicon or fabulous, because the account thereof..is fabulously or imperfectly delivered. View more context for this quotation
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 467 The voyages, indeed, are fabulously narrated.
1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 527 It would read fabulously enough.
2. In deviation from the fact; fictitiously, falsely.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adverb]
fantastically1547
forgedly1578
fabulously1593
fictitiously1646
commentitiously1652
fict1677
1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Middlesex i. 36 As is (though as I take it) fabulouslie reported.
1608 B. Jonson Descr. Masque Visct. Haddington 25 in Characters Two Royall Masques The place, from whence (as I haue beene, not fabulously, informed) the..Radcliffes..tooke their name.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 39 b A certain Spaniard..was fabulously said to..see the lowest Veins of Water that run under ground.
3. To a fabulous degree; greatly, immensely.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > amazingly or wonderfully
wonderlyc1000
wonderc1175
wonderfullya1300
marvellouslya1382
marvellousa1400
marvelly?a1400
wonderful14..
miraculouslya1425
wonderslyc1489
wondersc1528
wondrously1535
prodigiously1541
wondrous1557
stupendly1621
stupendiously1629
amazingly1650
stupendously1659
astonishingly1668
tremendously1684
prodigious1694
portentously1755
miraculous1766
awesomely1821
stunningly1823
fabulously1845
devastatingly1905
fantastically1923
dizzyingly1952
staggeringly1976
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 247 His cruelties have been fabulously exaggerated.
1894 N.E.D. at Fabulously Mod. He is reported to be fabulously wealthy.
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