GORGEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gorgeous mean? 

• GORGEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective GORGEOUS has 1 sense:

1. dazzlingly beautiful

  Familiarity information: GORGEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GORGEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dazzlingly beautiful

Context example:

a gorgeous Victorian gown

Similar:

beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)

 Context examples 

Neptune will be in gorgeous conversation with Jupiter, the good-fortune planet.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Growing from her shoulders were wings, gorgeous in color and so light that they fluttered if the slightest breath of air reached them.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Every one of us, but Beth, wants to be rich and famous, and gorgeous in every respect.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These gorgeous rock arches appear to be stationary, but they're actually in constant motion in response to wind and other environmental forces.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

"Ephemera" had been featured, with gorgeous head-piece and Beardsley-like margin decorations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Simulations and movies like these really help us visualize what Einstein meant when he said that gravity warps the fabric of space and time,” explains Jeremy Schnittman, who generated these gorgeous images using custom software at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.###!!!###

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

Again we passed the strange rooms, the gilded monsters, and the gorgeous footmen, and it was with relief that I found myself out in the open air once more, with the broad blue sea in front of us, and the fresh evening breeze upon our faces.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I said that on the same day, Sunday, November 24, there will be another aspect that will be gorgeous. And how!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Jo thought that was splendid, and resolved to be worthy of her knight, though he did not come prancing on a charger in gorgeous array.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)