Memorable
['mem(ə)rəb(ə)l] or ['mɛmərəbl]
Definition
(a.) Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Signal, notable, remarkable, extraordinary.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Great, striking, remarkable, conspicuous, prominent, noticeable, illustrious,extraordinary, famous, distinguished
ANT:Petty, trifling, ordinary, insignificant, unnoticeable, trivial, mediocre,slight
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Examples
- In all other respects Fosco, on that memorable day, was Fosco shrouded in total eclipse. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Chief Butler, erect and calm, replied in these memorable words. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Under date of February 12, he writes: This day has been memorable in the annals of Valdivia for the most severe earthquake experienced by the oldes t inhabitant. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was the sad, sudden end for us two of this memorable day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- With this preface, Sam related, as succinctly as he could, the last memorable conversation he had had with Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was a very sudden and very memorable rise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His Grace of Argyle came to me earlier than usual on that memorable evening; but, being unwell and love-sick, he found me in my bed-chamber. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- During that memorable month I basked in the happiness of being for once in my life drifting with the tide of a great popular movement. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Often, when we were at work, and she was sitting by, I would see her pausing and looking at him with that memorable face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The campaign had lasted about four months, and was one of the most memorable in history. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Surely, I had seen exactly such eyes and such hands on a memorable occasion very lately! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Seen in the retrospect, the struggle for the goal at this moment was one of the memorable incidents in electrical history. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I had parted with the worst bitterness of the past, but not with my heart's remembrance of the sorrow and the tenderness of that memorable time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The history of his flank movements and battles during that memorable campaign will ever be read with an interest unsurpassed by anything in history. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This I addressed to Highgate--for in that place, so memorable to me, he lived--and went and posted, myself, without losing a minute. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When there she threw herself on the bed with her clothes on, and lay in apparent torpor, as she had done once before on a memorable day of grief. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The memorable words I have quoted give to this ruined city about all the interest it possesses to people of the present day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The whole is taken from _Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, Book Third_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- ANOTHER RETROSPECT Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her country, its ancient annals, its late memorable struggles, were all made to partake in her glory and excellence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was here that poor Fred Vincy had made part of his memorable debt, having lost money in betting, and been obliged to borrow of that gay companion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Upton, who was early employed by Mr. Edison as his mathematician, furnishes a pleasant, vivid picture of his chief associates engaged on the memorable work at Menlo Park. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And they mounted to the car once more, and left behind them this memorable battle-field. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Farmer was not one of the party that memorable day in September, but his work was known through his intimate connection with Wallace, and there is no doubt that reference was made to it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I think, though, that Mayor Seidel's defense would by itself make this experiment memorable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- On the day of Mr. Micawber's memorable denunciation a threatening allusion was made by Uriah Heep to your aunt's--husband. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It has been a memorable time for me, Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Four years later the memorable message What hath God wrought! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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