| 单词 | glorious |
| 释义 | glorious (once / 137 pages) adj When something is fabulous and wonderful it can be described as glorious, like the glorious sight of the first flowers in your yard after a long, cold winter. The adjective glorious comes from the Latin word gloriosus, which means “full of glory,” or “famous.” What are some glorious things? The Grand Canyon, the Golden Gate Bridge, an Olympian's athleticism, the towering skyscrapers of New York City, autumn sunlight filtering through a forest of changing leaves, and the list goes on. If it is beautiful, amazing, fantastic and awe-inspiring, it’s glorious. WORD FAMILYglorious: gloriousest, gloriously, inglorious+/glorification: glorifications/glorify: glorification, glorified, glorifies, glorifying/glory: gloried, glories, glorify, glorious, glorying/inglorious: ingloriously USAGE EXAMPLESThen, 2017 will be a glorious year and set us on a path of recovery. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Dembélé wasted a glorious opportunity to send his team ahead within five minutes of the restart. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) On one glorious evening years later, we were celebrating her birthday at Sardi’s in New York, with 25 people at least. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj having or deserving or conferring glory a long and glorious career our glorious literature Syn|Ant bright splendid celebrated, historied, storiedhaving an illustrious past divine, elysian, inspiredbeing of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods empyreal, empyrean, sublimeinspiring awe illustrioushaving or conferring glory incandescentcharacterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance lustrousbrilliant knownapprehended with certainty inglorious not bringing honor and glory obscure, unknown, unsungnot famous or acclaimed dishonorable, dishonourablelacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor unknownnot known 2adj having great beauty and splendor a glorious spring morning a glorious sunset Syn resplendent, splendid, splendiferous beautiful delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration 3adj characterized by grandeur a glorious work of art Syn brilliant, magnificent, splendid impressive making a strong or vivid impression |
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