gorgeous
adjective
splendid or sumptuous in appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificent.
gorgeousness
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a word derived from
gorgeous.
Example Sentences
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Its cinematography embraces the full palette of textures and tones, finding gorgeousness in the most common items — a box, a length of fabric, even a burnt-out ruin.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
“One of the most beautiful vegetables to grace our planet,” Selengut says of romanesco’s alien gorgeousness in her book, noting that it’s “also the mathematical nerd’s veggie of choice,” given its Fibonacci sequence formations.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
There’s plenty of that to be found in Ciaran O’Reilly’s main-stage production, whose requisite grimness is edged with the gorgeousness of performances that are sly, vivid and pulsingly alive.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Over a 70-year career, Freud concerned himself almost exclusively with getting paint to convey the living weight and mortal gorgeousness of the human body and of other things close at hand, living and dead.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness, not to say gorgeousness, by virtue of one ear’s protruding slightly more than the other.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
