Word Meanings - GLORIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! Milton. 2. Eager for

Additional info about word: GLORIOUS

1. Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! Milton. 2. Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious. Most miserable Is the desire that's glorious. Shak. 3. Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink. kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious. Burns. During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time. Dryden. Syn. -- Eniment; noble; excellent; renowned; illustrious; celebrated; magnificent; grand; splendid. -- Glo"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Glo"ri*ous*ness, n. Udall. Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. Ex. xv. 21. I speak it not gloriously, nor out of affectation. B. Jonson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLORIOUS)

• Celebrated
• Famed
• renowned
• illustrious
• eminent
• glorious
• famous
• noted
• distinguished
• notable
• exalted
• Famous
• Renowned
• celebrated
• far-famed
• Illustrious
• brilliant
• deathless
• conspicuous
• noble
• Palmy
• Prosperous
• victorious
• flourishing
• Proud
• Arrogant
• haughty
• imperious
• supercilious
• presumptuous
• boastful
• vain glorious
• vain
• ostentatious
• elated
• self-satisfied
• lofty
• imposing
• magnificent
• self-conscious

Related words: (words related to GLORIOUS)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• NOTUM
  The back.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• FAMILIST
  One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
• FAMOSITY
  The state or quality of being famous. Johnson.
• ELATION
  A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• IMPOSSIBLE
  An impossibility. "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.
• FAMELESS
  Without fame or renown. -- Fame"less*ly, adv.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• IMPOSE
  A command; injunction. Shak.
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• NOTATION
  1. The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters. 2. Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• GELATIFICATION
  The formation of gelatin.
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• MONOTONE
  A single unvaried tone or sound.
• HUGUENOTISM
  The religion of the Huguenots in France.
• KNOTWEED
  See KNOT