memorable
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++mem·o·ra·ble /ˈmemərəbəl/ ●●○ adjective REMEMBERvery good, enjoyable, or unusual, and worth remembering 难忘的,值得纪念的 We want to make this a truly memorable day for the children. 我们想让今天成为孩子们永远难忘的日子。 —memorably adverbExamples from the Corpus
memorable• Dickens' characters are very vivid and memorable.• It is Bassani's unique gift that their familiar ordinariness should make them, often frighteningly, so memorable.• One memorable afternoon, we visited a Shinto shrine.• The story was memorable because, as far as I recall, it was the only book in the school library that even mentioned a black person.• For Clarissa Grey, the summer had been memorable because she had been consistently happy.• The Tyson-Douglas fight was one of the most memorable events in boxing history.• What's your most memorable moment from your years on the stage?• Hooke had already made several memorable names for himself in science.• It was a memorable night of riotous jollity.• Great inaugural speeches generally have one memorable sound bite.• The resulting chaos was so memorable that I've never dared take a holiday during a conference again!• Kirk Gibson hit a memorable World Series home run despite an injured leg, but he was only pinch-hitting.Origin memorable (1400-1500) Latin memorabilis, from memorare “to remind, mention”, from memor; → MEMORYmem·o·ra·ble adjectiveChineseSyllable
worth enjoyable, unusual, Corpus or and very good,
memorable
mem‧o‧ra‧ble /ˈmemərəbəl/
adjective
We want to make this a truly memorable day for the children.
—memorably adverb
mem‧o‧ra‧ble /ˈmemərəbəl/
adjective Word Family: noun: memorial, memory, memo, memoir, memorabilia, memorandum; adjective: memorable, memorial, immemorial; verb: memorize, memorialize; adverb: memorably
Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: memorabilis, from memorare 'to remind, mention', from memor; ⇨ memory
very good, enjoyable, or unusual, and worth remembering:Language: Latin
Origin: memorabilis, from memorare 'to remind, mention', from memor; ⇨ memory
—memorably adverb