Synonyms for proverbial
prəˈvɜr bi əlprover·bial

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1. proverbial

   Synonyms:
   notorious, current, acknowledged, unquestioned

   Antonyms:
   dubious, unfounded, suspicious, suspected, questionable

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1. proverbialadjective

   of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb

   "he kicked the proverbial bucket"; "the proverbial grasshopper"

   Antonyms:
   unknown

2. proverbialadjective

   widely known and spoken of

   "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

   Antonyms:
   unknown

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1. List of paraphrases for "proverbial":

   legendary, famous

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1. Nicole Antonopoulos:

   Los Angeles was Los Angeles, in a nutshell, the state preemption threw a huge kink in our efforts towards carbon neutrality. This isn't the first time the state has preempted things that have made us go back to the proverbial drawing table and figure out how we get creative and innovative in a space where we don't have funding.

2. Norman Douglas:

   What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

3. Quincy Krosby:

   The anxiety over the Fed meeting has abated for now, with the Fed using that word 'patient', you had the beginning of the proverbial Santa Claus rally.

4. Tim Ash:

   So (a) green light from Trump to Turkey to go ahead and get S400s - or that is now the Turkish view, i would imagine U.S. diplomat and defense department officials are in disbelief - Trump is like the proverbial bull in the China shop.

5. Srinivasan Sitaraman:

   Well, I think North Korea almost dared Trump to cancel the summit, and he did North Korea, the North Korean statement yesterday was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.