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Word Meanings - GORGEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,

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Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge

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  • MAGNIFICENTLY
    In a Magnificent manner.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • ASSUMABLE
    That may be assumed.
  • IMPOSABLE
    Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
  • SPLENDIDIOUS
    Splendid.
  • INFLATE
    Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
  • GRANDEUR
    The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
  • GORGEOUS
    Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
  • STIFFENER
    One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
  • VALUABLENESS
    The quality of being valuable.
  • GRANDEESHIP
    The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
  • INFLATED
    Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
  • GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
    A grand mother.
  • BURNISHER
    1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
  • AFFLUENTNESS
    Great plenty.
  • GRANDUNCLE
    father's or mother's uncle.
  • NOBLEWOMAN
    A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  • BURNISH
    To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
  • IMPOSINGNESS
    The quality of being imposing.
  • STIFFENING
    1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
  • NON ASSUMPSIT
    The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
  • SARGASSUM
    A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • CONGENEROUS
    Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
  • UNFRUITFUL
    Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an

 

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