Synonyms: glorious, splendid, splendiferous, resplendent
Definition: having great beauty and splendor
Usage: a glorious spring morning; a glorious sunset; splendid costumes; a kind of splendiferous native simplicity
Similar words: beautiful
Definition: delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
Usage: a beautiful child; beautiful country; a beautiful painting; a beautiful theory; a beautiful party
Synonyms: glorious
Definition: having or deserving or conferring glory
Usage: a long and glorious career; our glorious literature
Similar words: bright
Definition: splendid
Usage: the bright stars of stage and screen; a bright moment in history; the bright pageantry of court
Similar words: celebrated, historied, storied
Definition: having an illustrious past
Similar words: inspired, divine, elysian
Definition: being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
Usage: her pies were simply divine; the divine Shakespeare; an elysian meal; an inspired performance
Similar words: empyreal, empyrean, sublime
Definition: inspiring awe
Usage: well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity- M.S.Dworkin; empyrean aplomb- Hamilton Basso; the sublime beauty of the night
Similar words: illustrious
Definition: having or conferring glory
Usage: an illustrious achievement
Similar words: incandescent
Definition: characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance
Usage: an incandescent performance
Similar words: lustrous
Definition: brilliant
Usage: set a lustrous example for others to follow; lustrous actors of the time
Synonyms: magnificent, glorious, brilliant, splendid
Definition: characterized by grandeur
Usage: the brilliant court life at Versailles; a glorious work of art; magnificent cathedrals; the splendid coronation ceremony
Similar words: impressive
Definition: making a strong or vivid impression
Usage: an impressive ceremony