Something remarkable is so unusual or excellent that people talk about it. A remarkable achievement, remarkable courage, quite remarkable.
The word is literally about being worth remarking on, and it works for good and strange alike — a remarkable coincidence, a remarkable resemblance. It is a favourite of understated British praise: remarkable said quietly can mean a great deal. Note remarkably, the adverb, which is very common before adjectives: remarkably calm, remarkably little. And unremarkable, which in medical reports means there is nothing wrong.
1adjectiveremarkableSo unusual or excellent that people talk about it.
“It was a remarkable thing to attempt with no money at all.”
synonyms: notable, extraordinary, striking
remarkable is a quality of being noteworthy.
Also accepted in games: notable
French remarquable comes from remarquer, to notice again — re- plus marquer, to mark. Something remarkable is worth marking down, and the English word wears its logic on the surface.
French
remarquable
English, today
remarkable
From remark + able, from French remarquable.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA