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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or deserving glory; famous.
  2. adj. Conferring or advancing glory: a glorious achievement.
  3. adj. Characterized by great beauty and splendor; magnificent: a glorious sunset.
  4. adj. Delightful; wonderful: had a glorious visit with old friends.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Full of glory; characterized by attributes, qualities, or achievements that are worthy of or receive glory; of exalted excellence or splendor; illustrious; resplendent.
  2. Full of boasting; boastful; vainglorious; haughty; ostentatious.
  3. Eager for, or striving after, glory or distinction.
  4. Recklessly jolly; hilarious; elated: generally applied to a tipsy person.
  5. Synonyms Preëminent, distinguished, famous, magnificent, grand, splendid, radiant, brilliant.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.
  2. adj. Splendid; resplendent; bright; shining, as the sun, gold, or other shiny objects.
  3. adj. obsolete Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.
  4. adj. colloquial Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration.
  2. adj. obsolete Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.
  3. adj. colloq. Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characterized by grandeur
  2. adj. having great beauty and splendor
  3. adj. having or deserving or conferring glory

Etymologies

  1. Anglo-Norman and Old French glorius et al., from Latin glōriōsus. Replaced native Middle English wuldrig, from Old English. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “He does not like the term glorious ', which was invented, he says, by journalists.”

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  • “Belton, to hold themselves in readiness to obey his summons, on the likelihood there is of room for what he calls glorious mischief.”

    Clarissa Harlowe

  • “This is what I call glorious," said Ned, as he opened a can of condensed milk and passed it around.”

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  • “They had been successful the past winter and had sold their furs for a good price, and now Johnnie had plenty of money and was having what he termed a glorious good time, spending from ten to forty dollars a day.”

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  • “The wagons had been emptied, and grain and meal stored under cover; horses and bullocks had a good feed, and one of the wagons was demolished for firewood, our whole force revelling in what they called a glorious roast of beef.”

    Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer

  • “In later Greece -- in what we call the glorious period -- toil had gathered about it its modern crust of supposed baseness -- it was left to slaves; and wise men, in their philosophic lecture-rooms, spoke of it as unworthy of the higher specimens of cultivated humanity.”

    Short Studies on Great Subjects

  • “I know that feyther, both before and after his removal to Lunnon, used to make us all drink the '' Ard ware of Old Hingland '-- by witch, "she proceeded, correcting herself by a reproving glance from the sheriff --" by witch he meant what he called the glorious sinews of the country at large, lestwise in the manufacturing districts.”

    Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

  • “Warns Belford, Mowbray, Tourville, and Belton, to hold themselves in readiness to obey his summons, on the likelihood there is of room for what he calls glorious mischief.”

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1

  • “And finally, if you just couldn't stand watching the original Star Trek on the CBS site, you can now watch full episodes in 'glorious' YouTube format on YouTube!”

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  • “(though perhaps only through a coincidence) to a certain extent to represent what I call our glorious constitution in Church and State.”

    The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

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  • jeffazi having great beauty and splendor.
    Oct 30, 2007

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