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glorious

[glawr-ee-uhs, glohr-]

Example Sentences

adjective

delightful; wonderful; completely enjoyable: to have a glorious time at the circus.

conferring glory: a glorious victory.

full of glory; entitled to great renown: England is glorious in her poetry.

brilliantly beautiful or magnificent; splendid: a glorious summer day.

Archaic. blissfully drunk.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French glorieus < Latin glōriōsus. See glory, -ous

Related forms

glo·ri·ous·ly, adverb

glo·ri·ous·ness, noun

qua·si-glo·ri·ous, adjective

qua·si-glo·ri·ous·ly, adverb

su·per·glo·ri·ous, adjective

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su·per·glo·ri·ous·ly, adverb

su·per·glo·ri·ous·ness, noun

un·glo·ri·ous, adjective

un·glo·ri·ous·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
3. famous, famed, renowned, illustrious, noted, celebrated, eminent, distinguished.

Antonyms
1. unpleasant, disgusting. 3. unknown.

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Example Sentences

It's a glorious fall day, sunny, with temperatures in the mid-60s.

Cerritos cannot boast a glorious history, old money or natural beauty.

It was once thought that light pollution only affected astronomers, who need to see the night sky in all its glorious clarity.

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It's a glorious fall day, sunny, with temperatures in the mid-60s.

Cerritos cannot boast a glorious history, old money or natural beauty.

It was once thought that light pollution only affected astronomers, who need to see the night sky in all its glorious clarity.

Most of the time, however, it was pretty glorious science.

Add to this the almost vertical body, with tail extended in line, and glorious blue legs and feet.

The twilight was a glorious gold, fading to a cool blue-gray.

The chickens looked spectacularly glorious in their individual cages, oblivious to their looming fates.

On a temporary stage a succession of speakers talk about the country's glorious history.

The author did a glorious job getting me into the book.

And, similarly, a large deficit might also be motivating if you think you've got what it takes to stage a glorious comeback.

Well, he took streetcars to work and raised chickens out in the backyard as a hobby, a remembrance of glorious things past.

It's equal parts glorious invention and absurd annoyance.

It appears, however, that he will give up this glorious opportunity for destruction.

Today the field has again become a rather glorious mess.

The food photography and even the sound editing are glorious.

It cannot be simply a long footnote to the glorious career of your adviser.

But the loss of this glorious bird would steal some of the world's wonder.

We have four glorious seasons-each one unique and beautiful.

It was a glorious concert, and for a while it was impossible to think about anything other than beauty.

It is a cultural collaboration that echoes the glorious history of the caves-and may help ensure their survival.

Louis is a movie about life's glorious mundanities-from making ketchup to taking a trolley ride.

It was alternately glorious and tedious, fulfilling and demoralizing.

Simply a glorious morning for dawn color, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind ruffling the water.

The light continuously changed, painting the mosques and the clay-tiled roofs in shades ranging from drab to glorious.

Although this article paints a glorious picture it lacks history.

It must have been watching me make my last landscape photos of the glorious day.

It is for this reason that the setting of the sun, in all its glorious shapes and colors, is an event to be revered.

But an even more glorious one not to, when you could.

For one brief but glorious moment, he ignored his own philosophy:.

Outsiders have been struck by its filthy streets and shameless women, and also by its glorious architecture and heights of.

I'd heard, and glorious rock climbing on crystal towers.

It was one of those glorious early fall days when a high-domed sky exalts everything.

Yet the glorious terms in which he described such mishaps recast them as victories for religious devotion and sacrifice.

Nations lobby hard to get their glorious buildings, wilderness, and historic ruins on.

The past decade, however, has not always been glorious for the school.

They designed a grand city, with glorious buildings.

All its glorious parts, laid out for your eyes to behold.

Squaw was the best week of my summer and not only because of the mountains and glorious weather.

Musicians imagining a strange and glorious future were steadily replaced by those who endlessly romanticised the past.

We revel at the ways it transforms our world into glorious spectacles.

Abroad, too, those men engaged on expanding our glorious empire have to go on doing so.

Treatments are straightforward, but you'll never have your muscles worked over in a more glorious setting.

Medical profession is less glorious than it seems from outside.

There is a house two blocks from mine that was painted a glorious dark purple until last year.

He flatters and appreciates them so much the reflected light makes him all the more glorious in the mirror.

It was simultaneously glorious victory and devastating defeat.

The result is a glorious blog full of insightful notes and video shorts.

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World English Dictionary

glorious (ˈɡlɔːrɪəs)

—*adj*
1.	having or full of glory; illustrious
2.	conferring glory or renown: a glorious victory
3.	brilliantly beautiful
4.	delightful or enjoyable
5.	informal drunk

'gloriously

—*adv*

'gloriousness

—n

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"At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan."

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