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splendid
[ splen-did ]
adjective
Antonyms: squalid
- grand; superb, as beauty.
Synonyms: first-rate, elegant, majestic
- distinguished or glorious, as a name, reputation, victory, etc.
Synonyms: remarkable, celebrated, conspicuous, eminent, illustrious, famous, famed, renowned, noble, brilliant
Antonyms: unremarkable, ignoble, mediocre, ordinary
- strikingly admirable or fine:
splendid talents.
- excellent, fine, or very good:
to have a splendid time.
- brilliant in appearance, color, etc.
splendid
/ ˈsplɛndɪd /
adjective
- brilliant or fine, esp in appearance
- characterized by magnificence; imposing
- glorious or illustrious
a splendid reputation
- brightly gleaming; radiant
splendid colours
her splendid face
- very good or satisfactory
a splendid time
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Derived Forms
- ˈsplendidness, noun
- ˈsplendidly, adverb
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Other Words From
- splendid·ly adverb
- splendid·ness noun
- un·splendid adjective
- un·splendid·ly adverb
- un·splendid·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of splendid1
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Example Sentences
In any case, culling a manageable array from the totality of splendid volumes has with each year become more difficult.
One remaining letter thanks a friend for sending some grouse and a book, the former described as “splendid.”
You could hardly find a vestige of the splendid railroad depots, warehouses, etc.
But Daniel Day-Lewis is splendid as Lincoln, and Sally Field almost as good as the cunning, half-mad Mary.
What happened to the formerly addictive, splendid, elegant costume drama?
A splendid grand piano stands in one window (he receives a new one every year).
He had five girls by his first wife; there is no reason why this splendid cow I have picked out should not produce a dozen boys.
Adjoining the engine-house on the other side, is the stable, where five splendid horses are kept.
Dinner was spread in the cabin of that peerless steamer, the New World, and a splendid company were assembled about the table.
In the splendid woman that entered, Monsieur de Garnache saw a wonderful likeness to the boy who stood beside him.
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