Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Splendid in appearance; grand: a magnificent palace.
- adj. Grand or noble in thought or deed; exalted.
- adj. Outstanding of its kind; superlative: a magnificent place for sailing. See Synonyms at grand.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Great in deeds or action; especially, very liberal; munificent; generous; open-handed.
- Making a great show; possessing or pretending to greatness; stately; ostentatious.
- Grand in appearance or character; exhibiting greatness; splendid; brilliant; of extraordinary excellence: as, a magnificent building or view; a magnificent victory or poem; magnificent conceptions.
- Exhibiting greatness of size or extent: as, the preparations were upon a magnificent scale; a city of magnificent distances.
- Synonyms Superb, Splendid, etc. (see grand); imposing, august, gorgeous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
- adj. Grand or noble in action.
- adj. Exceptional for its kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
- adj. Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid; pompous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by grandeur
Etymologies
- From Latin as if *magnificens, equivalent to magnificus ("great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc."), from magnus ("great") + -ficens, an accom. form of -ficiens, the reg. form in compounds of faciens, ppr. of facere ("to do"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from magnificence, splendor, from Latin magnificentia, from , magnificent- comparative and superlative stem of magnificus, magnificent; see magnific. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Madam Newcott, kneeling in front of Caroline and intent on putting the finishing touches on what she called a magnificent creation, ignored the comment.”
“Huc and Gabet's account of Lhassa is, I do not doubt, excellent as to particulars; but the trees which they describe as magnificent, and girdling the city, have uniformly been represented to me as poor stunted willows, apricots, poplars, and walnuts, confined to the gardens of the rich.”
“England had been, and revered him with such enthusiasm for what she called his magnificent manhood and beneficence, as was ready on the least encouragement to have become something a good deal warmer; but whatever she did served to make her distasteful to him.”
“At a memorial service Thursday that drew some 12,000 people to the Penn State basketball arena, Jay Paterno reflected on what he called the "magnificent daylight" of his legendary father's life.”
“Curator Joan Murray once called it a "magnificent failure" - the choppy, thickly coloured brush strokes of the water, the flat tree and hills, the clouds billowing against, not with, the wind - but don't discount the word "magnificent.”
“Few women can lay claim to the word "magnificent", but Currie is now surely one of them.”
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“Neville Southall could be described as magnificent if only he hadn't been so scruffy," suggests Ian Copestake.”
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“Here he found but two young heifers being tested for tuberculosis, and a magnificent Duroc Jersey boar in magnificent condition.”
“The greens of the foliage pop with vivid colors, and the idyllic, endless blue of the ocean is captured in magnificent detail.”
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘magnificent’.
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Overwhelming
Descriptive, emotional, powerful words.
delightful, wonderful, spectacular, great, fantastic, amazing, magnificent, inspiring, intense, brilliant, blatant, hilarious and 2 more...
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I am : grand
grand, majestic, splendid, splendorous, magnificent, august, austere, spectacular, wondrous, awesome, redoubtable, formidable and 30 more...
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Her
beautiful, lovely, magnificent, exquisite, marvelous, charming, delicate, delightful, elegant, divine, resplendant, radiant and 6 more...
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Adjectives
Appearance Adjectives
unsightly, glamorous, fancy, ugliest, drab, quaint, plain, long, clean, elegant, Appearance Adject..., adorable and 5 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Words of Praise
Please contribute lots of panegyrical words—preferably such that are of universal use.
gorgeous, flamboyant, grand, magnificent, iridescent, incandescent, splendorous, coruscating, immaculate, magniloquent, sublime, scintillating and 33 more...
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my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for magnificent.
PossibleUnderscore The very word SOUNDS magnificent. Jul 18, 2009
cameronski Only magnificent things can be conjured up in the mind's eye when contemplating the word "magnificent". May 13, 2007