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English Dictionary: fabulously by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fabulously
adv
  1. exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well" [syn: fabulously, fantastically, incredibly]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fabulous \Fab"u*lous\ (f[acr]b"[usl]*l[ucr]s), a. [L. fabulosus;
      cf. F. fabuleux. See {Fable}.]
      1. Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised;
            invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous
            description; a fabulous hero.
  
                     The fabulous birth of Minerva.            --Chesterfield.
  
      2. Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
            --Macaulay.
  
      {Fabulous age}, that period in the history of a nation of
            which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends;
            as, the fabulous age of Greece and Rome. --
            {Fab"u*lous*ly}, adv. -- {Fab"u*lous*ness}, n.
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