adj. bringing great happiness and thankfulness; "glorious freedom"; "glorious times"

adj. having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature"

adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"

adj. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"

adj. highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage"

adj. beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of life"

adj. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"

adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"

adj. lavishly elegant and refined

adj. full of light; shining intensely; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers"

adj. elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe accommodations"

adj. elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child

adj. radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"

adj. impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval

adj. of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey"

adj. highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage"

adj. characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"

adj. extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"

adj. suitable for or like a palace; "palatial furnishings"; "a palatial yacht"

adj. feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes"

adj. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation"

adj. having received what was desired

adj. filled with satisfaction; "a satisfied customer"

adj. unusual or striking; "a remarkable sight"; "such poise is singular in one so young"

adj. beyond belief or understanding; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible"

adj. not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability"

adj. suggestive of or characterized by great expense; "a rich display"

adj. impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns"

adj. rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"

adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

adj. worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence"

adj. extraordinarily large in size or amount or degree

adj. in an extreme degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"

adj. intense or extreme in degree or quality: "intense anxiety,"; "extreme cold"; "deep trouble"; "horrible weather"; "profound regret"; "severe pain"; "such grief"; "a terrible cough"

adj. surprising greatly; "she does an amazing amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"

adj. inspiring admiration or approval; "among her many admirable qualities are generosity and graciousness"

adj. of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

adj. of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings"

adj. beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; "extraordinary authority"; "an extraordinary achievement"; "her extraordinary beauty"; "enjoyed extraordinary popularity"; "an extraordinary capacity for work"; "an extraordinary session of the legislature"

adj. supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"

adj. having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era"

adj. apprehended with certainty; "a known quantity"; "the limits of the known world"; "a musician known throughout the world"; "a known criminal"

adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"

adj. (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight

adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"

adj. "`braw' is Scottish: 'tis a braw bricht moonlict nicht"; "a fine evening"

adj. pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"

adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman

adj. of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"

adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

adj. dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"

adj. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"

adj. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"

adj. ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty

adj. used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"

adj. stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"

adj. used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"

adj. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

adj. exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"

adj. having or showing self-esteem

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

adj. occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement"

adj. proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep

adj. excessively proud

adj. feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"

adj. proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)

adj. trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness

adj. not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest"