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How to pronounce glorious in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms resplendent, splendid, splendiferous
Derivation glory


a glorious spring morning.
a glorious sunset.
Type Words
Synonyms brilliant, magnificent, splendid
Derivation glory


a glorious work of art.
Type Words
Derivation glory


a long and glorious career.
our glorious literature.

Examples of glorious

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Who needs a band when these vocalists can harmonize glorious music on their own?
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The Kings had a glorious chance to win it on another advantage late in overtime.
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Is Test cricket less glorious because every now and then someone throws a match?
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All you needed for the glorious chance was a $50 receipt from Victoria's Secret.
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As Kyle's light shines bright after death, Lance is caught in the glorious glow.
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On the plus side, it is a glorious public space smack in the middle of downtown.
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There were pencil-thin grilled asparagus and glorious, sizzlingly sharp arugula.
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What glorious fun we had, my brother and I. What adventures we went on together.
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If you don't want to talk about your glorious paradox, then why even mention it?
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More examples
  • Having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature"
  • Brilliant: characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony"
  • Having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
  • (gloriously) with glory or in a glorious manner; "where others had failed he had gloriously succeeded"
  • (gloriously) blessedly or wonderfully; "how gloriously happy she had been during those few fleeting moments of time"
  • (glory) a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself"
  • Peter Quilter is a playwright whose plays have been translated into 20 languages and performed in 33 countries. His shows have been performed in cities across six continents, including London, Cape Town, Helsinki, Prague, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney.
  • "Glorious" is a pop song released by Swedish singer Andreas Johnson in 1999. It is from Johnson's Liebling album on the WEA record label.
  • Glorious is American singer Gloria Gaynor's fourth studio album. It was released in 1977 on Polydor Records.