Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Splendid: "The working genius of American design has been . . . a refining of utilitarian purity into a kind of splendiferous native simplicity” ( Jay Cocks).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Splendor-bearing; splendid; brilliant; gorgeous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Now used humorously., Now used humorously. Splendor-bearing; splendid.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having great beauty and splendor
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin splendorifer, from Latin splendor + ferro ("to bear"), reintroduced humourously into English c. 1837. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Medieval Latin splendiferus, from Late Latin splendōrifer : Latin splendor, splendor; see splendor + Latin -fer, -fer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Perlman, the "splendiferous" author of the current spotlighted review, wasted no time savaging my contribution.”
“We should have been very sorry if such a "splendiferous" phenomenon had been obscured by envious boa or pelisse, or lost to the proprieties of costume.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
“Scroggles looked round at his comrades, as if to appeal to their judgment as to the fitness of the word, but not receiving any encouragement, he thrust down the glowing tobacco in his pipe with the end of his little finger, and reiterated the word "splendiferous" with marked emphasis.”
“Little did I know that "splendiferous" means "tastes like the sweat off a dog's nuts.”
“You can download everything needed to hold your very own splendiferous Peach Party here.”
“For the reader I am -- and, if I remember accurately, the reader I was even then -- they're okay, but nothing magically splendiferous.”
“It was a splendiferous day outside – the glens with their meadows of sunshine and dew all around us.”
“In 1565, Eliseus Libaerts, a Flemish goldsmith working in the French Mannerist style, created a horse-and-rider ensemble for Erik XIV of Sweden, who never got to wear his splendiferous outfit.”
The Wall Street Journal: Breathtaking Armor Fit for a Prince
“Four Seasons The pool at the Four Seasons Resort Carmelo Colonia, in fact, would seem to be the most mysterious place in Uruguay—whose popular beach towns I've explored widely—had I not arrived from Carmelo, an hour's drive inland, where the Four Seasons has operated a splendiferous resort since 2001.”
“He sees it as a state with great strengths, which he is happy to rattle off in the vein of last October's Time magazine cover story on the state's splendiferous assets, and which anyone who pays attention to California can imagine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘splendiferous’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Words describing beauty
Words associated with beauty, love, and a happy feeling!
whimsical, amatory, amorous, paradisiacal, calliope, callitriche, Callimachus, callinectes, calliphora, seraphic, calliopsis, callirhoe and 27 more...
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aujourdui's list
totally fantabulous words
wombat, spiffing, gnarly, splendiferous, yoda, rockocity, shmexy, rebrella, coolio, liger, ravenous, crudsicles and 12 more...
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Desultory Digressions
Also known as EsotericWench's Word Holding Tank. These are words that have caught my fancy but I have yet to file in the appropriate list. If I don't capture them here, I won't capture them at all.
desultory, abjure, immethodical, mentalist, subvertising, schmaltzy, fartlek, interstitial, ear-rent, brouhaha, crufty, malefactor and 34 more...
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[Open] Yes, it really is a word.
Bona fide words that appear misspelled or made-up. See also “Correctly-spelled words that look like misspellings of other words”.
resplendishant, apprehensible, splendent, splendiferous, magnifical, queem, ostentiferous, squiz, researchful, snaffle, blench, debulition and 22 more...
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Jenni's List
My Favorite Words
splendiferous, wonderous, calamity, foregone, magnanimous, benevolent, hullabaloo, pandemonium, hubbub, brouhaha, ballyhoo
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
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garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Cessilind's Words
dvorak, ingenuity, cessation, oblique, transverse, anvilicious, evoke, verisimilitude, integrity, strega, recumbent, depression and 164 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Jayslist
description of interesting words
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for splendiferous.
schmerle Doesn't belong here, but since I'm not a native speaker, you MIGHT forgive me that. Nov 16, 2007
jeffazi having great beauty and splender. Oct 30, 2007
uselessness I love Phoenix Wright. But I have an OBJECTION! to that citation. The word's been around a lot longer than the games. Aug 1, 2007
schmerle
Creation of the character Redd White, taken from the Phoenix Wright videogame series. Aug 1, 2007