This adjective describes things contrary to expectation or common opinion—whether marvelous or paradoxical. Luke uses it to capture the crowd's reaction after Jesus heals the paralytic: 'We have seen remarkable things today.' The term can denote the incredible, the unexpected, or Stoic paradoxes. It suggests disruption of normal categories, events that defy conventional wisdom. The word evokes astonishment at what shouldn't be possible but is. Reality has outrun expectation.