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illustrious
[ ih-luhs-tree-uhs ]
adjective
- highly distinguished; renowned; famous:
an illustrious leader.
Synonyms: famed, eminent, celebrated
- glorious, as deeds or works:
many illustrious achievements.
- Obsolete. luminous; bright.
illustrious
/ ɪˈlʌstrɪəs /
adjective
- of great renown; famous and distinguished
- glorious or great
illustrious deeds
- obsolete.shining
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Derived Forms
- ilˈlustriously, adverb
- ilˈlustriousness, noun
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Other Words From
- il·lustri·ous·ly adverb
- il·lustri·ous·ness noun
- unil·lustri·ous adjective
- unil·lustri·ous·ly adverb
- unil·lustri·ous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of illustrious1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of illustrious1
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Example Sentences
The savvy forger with Pappy empties to fill might get his hands on some Old Weller and present it as its more illustrious cousin.
And I realized that a man had to be pretty sure of himself, because she was quite an illustrious person.
Terman and his assistant relied on biographical accounts of illustrious individuals to compute the scores.
A few members of the real-life Bling Ring have had a more illustrious postscript than others.
In The House of Rothschild, I identified at least three members of that illustrious financial dynasty as gay.
William Pitt, earl of Chatham, a most illustrious English statesman, died.
Those illustrious heroes of antiquity became the companions of her solitude and of her hourly thoughts.
Disgusted with the frivolity of the living, she sought solace for her wounded feelings in companionship with the illustrious dead.
Jane was thus prepared by Providence for that career which she rendered so illustrious through her talents and her sufferings.
Her illustrious father found her when even a child as to age, quite his companion as to comprehension and mental capacities.
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