MAGNIFICENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnificent mean? 

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

1. characterized by grandeur

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNIFICENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by grandeur

Synonyms:

brilliant; glorious; magnificent; splendid

Context example:

the splendid coronation ceremony

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 

Wow, dear Capricorn! You have a magnificent month—and a glorious year—ahead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You are magnificent, and you are magnificently good.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What magnificent orders would travel from this family to London, said Edward, in such an event!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The view was magnificent, and from where I stood there was every opportunity of seeing it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Look at the magnificent types! Look at these two men who are coming towards us, for example.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Still, as I ascended higher, the valley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Ford and Edricson gazed around them in amazement, for never had they seen such magnificent works of art.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We were too magnificent,” said he.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was a magnificent sight to any one who had not lost his sense of appreciation of the noblest of all the works of Nature.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This he might safely do; because every thing about him was magnificent, regular, and polite.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)