Word Meanings - GORGEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,

Additional info about word: GORGEOUS

Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GORGEOUS)

• Grand
• Large
• dignified
• imposing
• important
• eventful
• magnificent
• grandly
• majestic
• august
• exalted
• stately
• splendid
• lofty
• elevated
• pompous
• gorgeous
• sublime
• superb
• magnanimous
• noble
• Pompous
• Magnificent
• showy
• sumptuous
• ostentatious
• grand
• bombastic
• turgid
• stiff
• Inflated
• pretentious
• coxcombical
• assuming
• Resplendent
• Brilliant
• luminous
• glittering
• flashing
• burnished
• Rich
• Wealthy
• opulent
• affluent
• abundant
• generous
• productive
• copious
• fertile
• fruitful
• valuable
• costly
• high-flavored
• luscious
• oleaginous
• vivid
• deep
• bright

Related words: (words related to GORGEOUS)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• AFFLUENTNESS
  Great plenty.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• SARGASSUM
  A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an