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remarkable

adj · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɑː.kə.bl̩/
  • General-American: /ɹɪˈmɑɹ.kə.bl̩/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)kəbəl
  • CMU ARPABET: R IH0 M AA1 R K AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: R IY0 M AA1 R K AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Worthy of remark; notable; interesting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Her remarkable skill in mathematics is better than everyone else's in the class.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: commentworthy, eminent, extraordinary, markworthy, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, observable, outstanding, rare, strange, unusual, wonderful, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, epochful, essential, fateful, fatefraught, fatesome, heavy, pivotal, high on the totem pole, historic, innegligible, key, life-or-death, meaningful, necessary, noted, paramount, pertinent, relevant, remarkable, salient, significant, unignorable, valuable, vital, weighty, illustrious, distinguished, forestanding, mentionable, nameable, namely, nameworthy, sensational, extraordinaire, pass-remarkable, ponderable, prominent, signal, sovereign

Antonyms: unremarkable

2

adj

Meaning 2

Uncommon; unusual.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: abnormal, queer, singular, aberrant, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, incongruous, incongruitous, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, odd, outlandish, out of the ordinary, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as a coot, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, uncouth, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy

Antonyms: normal, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, everyday, expected, garden variety, improminent, mundane, natural, ordinary, par for the course, par, plain, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday, workaday

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

unusual or striking

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a remarkable sight
  • such poise is singular in one so young

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: singular

Antonyms: none provided

4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

worthy of notice

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a noteworthy fact is that her students rarely complain
  • a remarkable achievement

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: noteworthy

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From remark + -able, from French remarquable.

Across languages

Translations

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: ف شي شكل (f šī škal) — worthy of being remarked
  • Belarusian: выда́тны (vydátny) — worthy of being remarked
  • Bengali: অলৌকিক (olōukik) — worthy of being remarked
  • Bulgarian: забележителен (zabeležitelen) — worthy of being remarked
  • Catalan: remarcable — worthy of being remarked
  • Chinese Mandarin: 傑出 /杰出 (jiéchū) — worthy of being remarked
  • Czech: pozoruhodný — worthy of being remarked
  • Danish: bemærkelsesværdig — worthy of being remarked
  • Dutch: opmerkelijk — worthy of being remarked
  • Dutch: markant — worthy of being remarked
  • Dutch: opvallend — worthy of being remarked
  • Finnish: huomattava — worthy of being remarked
  • Finnish: merkittävä — worthy of being remarked
  • Finnish: huomionarvoinen — worthy of being remarked
  • French: remarquable — worthy of being remarked
  • German: bemerkenswert — worthy of being remarked
  • German: verwunderlich — worthy of being remarked
  • German: denkwürdig — worthy of being remarked
  • German: beachtenswert — worthy of being remarked
  • German: beachtlich — worthy of being remarked
  • Hungarian: figyelemre méltó — worthy of being remarked
  • Irish: ar leith — worthy of being remarked
  • Italian: notevole — worthy of being remarked
  • Italian: degno di nota — worthy of being remarked
  • Italian: rimarchevole — worthy of being remarked
  • Italian: ragguardevole — worthy of being remarked
  • Italian: riguardevole — worthy of being remarked
  • Kazakh: үздік (üzdık) — worthy of being remarked
  • Kazakh: көрнекті (körnektı) — worthy of being remarked
  • Latin: insignis — worthy of being remarked
  • Latin: memorābilis — worthy of being remarked
  • Latvian: redzams — worthy of being remarked
  • Latvian: ievērojams — worthy of being remarked
  • Norman: r'mèrtchabl'ye — worthy of being remarked
  • Plautdietsch: oppfaulent — worthy of being remarked
  • Polish: wybitny — worthy of being remarked
  • Portuguese: notável — worthy of being remarked
  • Portuguese: eminente — worthy of being remarked
  • Portuguese: destacável — worthy of being remarked
  • Romanian: remarcabil — worthy of being remarked
  • Romanian: notabil — worthy of being remarked
  • Russian: замеча́тельный (zamečátelʹnyj) — worthy of being remarked
  • Russian: выдаю́щийся (vydajúščijsja) — worthy of being remarked
  • Russian: порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) — worthy of being remarked
  • Russian: знамени́тый (znamenítyj) — worthy of being remarked
  • Spanish: remarcable — worthy of being remarked
  • Spanish: destacable — worthy of being remarked
  • Spanish: prócer — worthy of being remarked
  • Swedish: anmärkningsvärd — worthy of being remarked
  • Swedish: märklig — worthy of being remarked
  • Tocharian B: ṣotarye — worthy of being remarked
  • Turkish: dikkate değer — worthy of being remarked
  • Turkish: fevkalade — worthy of being remarked
  • Turkish: kayda değer — worthy of being remarked
  • Ukrainian: вида́тний (vydátnyj) — worthy of being remarked
  • Volapük: küpädö — worthy of being remarked
  • Walloon: rimarcåve — worthy of being remarked
  • Walloon: rimarcant — worthy of being remarked
  • Walloon: foû-ordinaire — worthy of being remarked
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