remarkable

remarkable
adj.
VERBS
be, seem
ADVERB
absolutely, just (esp. AmE), most, quite, really, truly, very

What they have achieved is just remarkable.

a most remarkable musician

a truly remarkable discovery

a very remarkable person

fairly, pretty, rather
equally

Equally remarkable is the transformation he has undergone personally.

especially, particularly
PREPOSITION
for

These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.

Remarkable is used with these nouns: ↑ability, ↑accomplishment, ↑accuracy, ↑achievement, ↑advance, ↑aspect, ↑book, ↑capacity, ↑coincidence, ↑collection, ↑comeback, ↑consistency, ↑continuity, ↑correlation, ↑courage, ↑degree, ↑development, ↑discovery, ↑diversity, ↑ease, ↑effect, ↑effort, ↑endurance, ↑escape, ↑event, ↑example, ↑expansion, ↑feat, ↑feature, ↑find, ↑gift, ↑improvement, ↑insight, ↑job, ↑lack, ↑likeness, ↑performance, ↑persistence, ↑phenomenon, ↑piece, ↑poise, ↑progress, ↑range, ↑rapidity, ↑record, ↑recovery, ↑reduction, ↑regularity, ↑resemblance, ↑resilience, ↑restraint, ↑run, ↑similarity, ↑skill, ↑speed, ↑story, ↑success, ↑talent, ↑testament, ↑testimony, ↑thing, ↑transformation, ↑tribute, ↑triumph, ↑turn, ↑variety, ↑victory, ↑win, ↑woman

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