Synonym Study 1.Magnificent,gorgeous,splendid,superb are terms of high admiration and all are used informally in weak exaggeration. Something that is magnificent is beautiful, princely, grand, or ostentatious: a magnificent display of paintings; a magnificent view of the harbor. Something gorgeous moves one to admiration of its richness and the (often colorful) variety of its effects: a gorgeous array of handsome gifts. Anything worthy of being described as splendid is dazzling or impressive in its brilliance, radiance, or excellence: splendid jewels; a splendid body of scholars. And if something is superb, it is of the highest degree of, or above others in, excellence, elegance, or (less often, today) grandeur: a superb concert; superb wines.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
1620s, probably a shortening of earlier splendidious (early 15c.), from L. splendidus "magnificent, brilliant," from splendere "be bright, shine, gleam, glisten," from PIE *(s)plend- "bright" (cf, Lith. splendziu "I shine," M.Ir. lainn "bright"). An earlier form was splendent (late 15c.).