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PHENOMENAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phenomenal mean?
• PHENOMENAL (adjective)
The adjective PHENOMENAL has 2 senses:
1. of or relating to a phenomenon
2. exceedingly or unbelievably great
Familiarity information: PHENOMENAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to a phenomenon
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
phenomenal science
Pertainym:
phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exceedingly or unbelievably great
Context example:
phenomenal feats of memory
Similar:
extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)
Context examples
Others demonstrate phenomenal stamina as they relentlessly run down quarry.
(Hound Breed, NCI Thesaurus)
As somebody has said, phenomenal knowledge cannot transcend phenomena.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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