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SPLENDID
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having great beauty and splendor
Example:
a kind of splendiferous native simplicity
Synonyms:
glorious; resplendent; splendid; splendiferous
Classified under:
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by grandeur
Example:
the splendid coronation ceremony
Synonyms:
brilliant; glorious; magnificent; splendid
Classified under:
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Very good; of the highest quality
Example:
a first-class mind
Synonyms:
excellent; fantabulous; first-class; ripping; splendid
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Context examples:
Don't you feel how splendid it is that a young man and a young woman should be able to talk face to face as we have talked?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You’ve done splendid work and taken risks, and I can’t forget it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"But surely you will think more of me when you hear the splendid thoughts my new brain is going to turn out."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Perhaps it is because I am a slight creature myself, but it is my peculiarity that I had rather look upon a splendid man than upon any work of Nature.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A splendid park with fine old timber surrounds the house, and the lake, to which my client had referred, lay close to the avenue, about two hundred yards from the building.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All his splendid initiative had vanished.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I could see from the flash of our lamps, as the rays fell on them, that the horses were coal-black and splendid animals.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Pooh! you can't be silly enough to wish to leave such a splendid place?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was a splendid sight, and she began, for the first time that evening, to feel herself at a ball: she longed to dance, but she had not an acquaintance in the room.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But, when he goes abroad on solemn days, he is attended, for state, by a military guard of five hundred horse, which, indeed, I thought was the most splendid sight that could be ever beheld, till I saw part of his army in battalia, whereof I shall find another occasion to speak.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
