GLORIOUS meaning: Deserving great admiration and honor

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Glorious:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

glorious: Merriam-Webster
glorious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
glorious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
glorious: Collins English Dictionary
glorious: Vocabulary.com
Glorious, glorious: Wordnik
glorious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
glorious: Wiktionary
glorious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
glorious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
glorious: Infoplease Dictionary
Glorious, glorious: Dictionary.com
glorious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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glorious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
glorious: Rhymezone
glorious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
glorious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
glorious: FreeDictionary.org
glorious: Mnemonic Dictionary
glorious: TheFreeDictionary.com
glorious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Glorious, Glorious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Glorious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
glorious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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glorious: Legal dictionary

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glorious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

glorious, glorious: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
glorious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glorious)

▸ adjective:  Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory.
▸ adjective:  Excellent, wonderful; delightful.
▸ adjective:  Bright or shining;
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Eager for glory or distinction
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Excessively proud or boastful.
▸ adjective:  (archaic, colloquial) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.

Opposite:

dismal, shameful, inglorious, disgraceful, mediocre

Phrases:

Glorious Revolution, glorious mysteries, Glorious Twelfth, self glorious, Glorious First of June, more...

Adjectives:

more, british, vain, his, old, our, toast, sleep, carrier, savage, worthy

Colors:

gold, crimson, sapphire, emerald, ruby, more...

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