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MAGNIFICENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by grandeur
Example:
the splendid coronation ceremony
Synonyms:
brilliant; glorious; magnificent; splendid
Classified under:
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Derivation:
magnificence (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)
magnificence (the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand)
Context examples:
Over the fireplace was a magnificent trophy of weapons, one of which had been used on that tragic night.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At my suggestion, however, he gave up smoking and drinking; though why such a magnificent animal as he should have headaches at all puzzles me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"Thank you. I'll remind you of your promise when that joyful day comes, if it ever does," returned Jo, accepting the vague but magnificent offer as gratefully as she could.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“I have been at the play, too,” said I. “At Covent Garden. What a delightful and magnificent entertainment, Steerforth!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A huge deer, with branching horns, a magnificent creature which carried itself like a king, came down with its doe and two fawns and drank beside the armadillos.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Made quite a stir at the time. His name was Womble—Graham Womble. He had a magnificent practice. I knew him somewhat."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Everybody acknowledged Buck a magnificent animal, but twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour bulked too large in their eyes for them to loosen their pouch-strings.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I left him full of the image of this magnificent intellect babbling like a foolish child.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a magnificent specimen of the jeweller’s art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I have ever seen.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But neither the business alleged, nor the magnificent compliment, could win Catherine from thinking that some very different object must occasion so serious a delay of proper repose.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
