Gorgeous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain,
     luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F.
     gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. {Gorge},
     n.]
     Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine;
     magnificent.


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           Cloud-land, gorgeous land.               --Coleridge.
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           Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.        --Shak.
     -- {Gor"geous*ly}, adv. -- {Gor"geous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gorgeous
       adj : dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "gorgeous":
     beaming, beautiful, blatant, blooming, brazen, brazenfaced,
     breathtaking, bright, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, colorful,
     colory, crude, dazzling, deep-colored, devastating, divine,
     elephant, excellent, exotic, exquisite, extravagant, fantastic,
     flagrant, flamboyant, flaring, flaunting, garish, gaudy, gay,
     gay-colored, glamorous, glaring, glorious, glowing, grand, great,
     heavenly, high-colored, impressive, intense, killing, lavish, loud,
     lurid, luxurious, magnificent, marvy, meretricious, neat, nifty,
     obtrusive, opulent, ostentatious, plush, pretentious, proud,
     radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, resplendent, rich,
     rich-colored, screaming, sensational, shameless, shining, showy,
     smashing, sparkling, spectacular, splendid, splendiferous,
     splendorous, splendrous, stunning, sublime, sumptuous, super,
     superb, swell, tawdry, terrific, vivid, vulgar, wonderful