glamorous
/ˈɡlamərəs
/adjective
Having glamour: one of the world’s most glamorous women...
- It came as a shock to learn that they were not these glamorous, mysterious creatures but that they had feet of clay.
- The glamorous showbiz star has a huge cocaine addiction and it was starting to affect her work
- I was wondering how I could make my hair look as glamorous.
Synonyms
alluring, beautiful, attractive, elegant, chic, smart, well dressed, stylish, fashionable;
charming, charismatic, fascinating, intriguing, beguiling, appealing, lovely, bewitching, enchanting, entrancing, irresistible, seductive, tantalizing
informal classy, glitzy, ritzy, glam
exciting, stimulating, thrilling, fascinating, high profile, dazzling, glittering, glossy, tinselled;
cosmopolitan, colourful, exotic
informal ritzy, glitzy, sexy, hot, fast-lane, jet-setting
Usage
Note that although glamor is an American spelling of glamour, glamorous is not an American form. This word is spelled the same way in both British and American English, and glamourous is regarded as an error.
Derivatives
glamorously
/ adverb ...- In one glamorously posed shot, he's dressed in denim and a Stetson.
- Last week's mystery wedding picture showed a glamorously dressed couple in their middle years, who could well have been foreign.
- The exhibit consists of a heavily grommeted rocket ship and glamorously adorned gravity boots.
Rhymes
- marrying-out
- marry in haste, repent at leisure
- marry money
- marry with the left hand
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- Marsala
- Marsalis, Wynton
- Marsanne
- Mars bar
- Mars color
- Mars colour
- Marseillaise
- Marseilles
- Mars Global Surveyor
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- marshal
- marshalate
- marshalcy
- Marshall aid
- marshaller
- Marshallese
- Marshall, George C.
- Marshallian
- marshalling yard
- Marshall Islands