Word Meanings - SPLENDID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun. 2. Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant. 3. Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous;

Additional info about word: SPLENDID

1. Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun. 2. Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant. 3. Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPLENDID)

• Gallant
• Brave
• chivalrous
• intrepid
• courteous
• heroic
• fearless
• courageous
• valiant
• bold
• splendid
• showy
• gay
• Gorgeous
• Magnificent
• costly
• rich
• superb
• grand
• strong
• Grand
• Large
• dignified
• imposing
• important
• eventful
• magnificent
• grandly
• majestic
• august
• exalted
• stately
• lofty
• elevated
• pompous
• gorgeous
• sublime
• magnanimous
• noble
• Pompous
• sumptuous
• ostentatious
• bombastic
• turgid
• stiff
• Inflated
• pretentious
• coxcombical
• assuming

Related words: (words related to SPLENDID)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• 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.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• 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.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• 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.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• 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.
• 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
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.