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,
Additional info about word: 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, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GORGEOUS)
- Grand
- Large
- dignified
- imposing
- important
- eventful
- magnificent
- grandly
- majestic
- august
- exalted
- stately
- splendid
- lofty
- elevated
- pompous
- gorgeous
- sublime
- superb
- magnanimous
- noble
- Pompous
- Magnificent
- showy
- sumptuous
- ostentatious
- grand
- bombastic
- turgid
- stiff
- Inflated
- pretentious
- coxcombical
- assuming
- Resplendent
- Brilliant
- luminous
- glittering
- flashing
- burnished
- Rich
- Wealthy
- opulent
- affluent
- abundant
- generous
- productive
- copious
- fertile
- fruitful
- valuable
- costly
- high-flavored
- luscious
- oleaginous
- vivid
- deep
- bright
Related words: (words related to GORGEOUS)
- 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