remarkable (adj.)

"observable, worthy of notice," hence "extraordinary, exceptional, conspicuous," c. 1600, from remark (v.) + -able, or from or based on French remarquable (16c.), from remarquer. Related: Remarkably; remarkableness. From 17c.-19c. remarkables (n.) were "noteworthy things or circumstances."

also from c. 1600

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remark (v.)

1630s, "to mark out, distinguish," a sense now obsolete, modeled on French remarquer "to mark, note, heed," formed in French from re-, here perhaps an intensive prefix (see re-), + marquer "to mark," which probably is from Frankish or another Germanic source such as Old High German marchon "to delimit" (see mark (n.1)).

Meaning "take notice of, mark out in the mind" is from 1670s; that of "make a comment, express, as a thought that has occurred to the speaker or writer" is attested from 1690s, from the notion of "make a verbal observation" or "call attention to specific points." Related: Remarked; remarking.

unremarkable (adj.)

1610s, from un- (1) "not" + remarkable (adj.). Related: Unremarkably.

-able

*merg-

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singular

mid-14c., singuler, "alone, apart; being a unit; special, unsurpassed," from Old French singuler "personal, particular; distinctive; singular in number" (12c., Modern French singulier) or directly from Latin singularis "single, solitary, one by one, one at a time; peculiar, remar

notable

mid-14c., "worthy of note, important, praiseworthy," from Old French notable "well-known, notable, remarkable" (13c.), from Latin notabilis "noteworthy, extraordinary," from notare "to mark, note, make a note," from nota "mark, sign, means of recognition" (see note (n.)). Meaning

phenomenal

Meaning "remarkable, exceptional, exciting wonder" is by 1850....To divert it from this proper use to a job for which it is not needed, by making it do duty for remarkable, extraordinary...

climacteric

1620s, "a critical stage in human life, a period supposed to be especially liable to remarkable change with regard to health...The great or grand climacteric, supposed to be especially remarkable, was the 63rd year (7x9) or the 81st (9x9)....

observable

c. 1600, "that must be attended, followed, or kept," also "worthy of notice or mention," from Latin observabilis "remarkable...

exist

"The late appearance of the word is remarkable" [OED]....

bedizen

It is remarkable that neither the vb., nor the sb. as a separate word, has been found in OE. or ME., and that on the other...

ecstasy

late 14c., extasie "elation," from Old French estaise "ecstasy, rapture," from Late Latin extasis, from Greek ekstasis "entrancement, astonishment, insanity; any displacement or removal from the proper place," in New Testament "a trance," from existanai "displace, put out of plac

adventure

c. 1200, aventure, auenture "that which happens by chance, fortune, luck," from Old French aventure (11c.) "chance, accident, occurrence, event, happening," from Latin adventura (res) "(a thing) about to happen," from fem. of adventurus, future participle of advenire "to come to,

earnest

"serious or grave in speech or action," early 14c., ernest, from Old English eornoste (adj.) "zealous, serious," or from Old English noun eornost "seriousness, serious intent" (surviving only in the phrase in earnest), from Proto-Germanic *er-n-os-ti- (source also of Old Saxon er

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