Glorious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: glo=ri=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

Glorious, a. [OF. glorios, glorious, F. glorieux, fr. L. gloriosus. See Glory, n.].

•  Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.  [1913 Webster]

  "These are thy glorious works, Parent of good !"  [1913 Webster]
•  Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.  [1913 Webster]

  "Most miserable
  Is the desire that's glorious."  [1913 Webster]
•  Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.  [1913 Webster]

  "kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
  O'er all the ills of life victorious."  [1913 Webster]

  "During his office treason was no crime,
  The sons of Belial had a glorious time."

  "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously."  [1913 Webster]

  "I speak it not gloriously, nor out of affectation."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Eniment; noble; excellent; renowned; illustrious; celebrated; magnificent; grand; splendid.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Glorious, adj.
1 possessing glory; illustrious.
2 conferring glory; honourable.
3 colloq. splendid; magnificent; delightful (a glorious day; glorious fun).
4 iron. intense; unmitigated (a glorious muddle).
5 colloq. happily intoxicated.

Derivative

gloriously adv. gloriousness n.

Etymology

ME f. AF glorious, OF glorios, -eus f. L gloriosus (as GLORY)

THESAURUS

Glorious

Babylonian, Corinthian, addled, admirable, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, beaming, beautiful, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, blooming, boundless, bright, brilliant, celebrated, changeless, charismatic, cool, crapulent, crapulous, creating, creative, dandy, dazzling, delightful, deluxe, devastating, distinguished, divine, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated, eminent, enjoyable, estimable, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, exalted, excellent, exquisite, extravagant, fabulous, famed, famous, fancy, far-gone, fine, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, gilt-edged, glamorous, glowing, godlike, golden, good, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, groovy, hallowed, happy, heavenly, heroic, high, highest, holy, honored, hot, hunky-dory, illustrious, immense, immortal, immutable, imposing, impressive, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, infinite, intoxicated, jolly, just, keen, killing, lauded, limitless, lofty, loving, luminous, lustrous, luxurious, magic, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, making, marvelous, maudlin, mellow, merciful, merry, muddled, nappy, neat, noble, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, outstanding, palatial, permanent, perpetual, pleasurable, plush, posh, princely, prominent, proud, radiant, raving, ravishing, reeling, renowned, resplendent, ritzy, sacred, sensational, shaping, shikker, shining, soaring, sodden, sotted, sovereign, sparkling, spectacular, splendacious, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, stately, sterling, stunning, sublime, sumptuous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfancy, superfine, superior, supreme, swank, swanky, swell, terrific, tiddly, timeless, tipsy, towering, tremendous, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, under the influence, unlimited, wonderful

ROGET THESAURUS

Glorious

Drunkenness

N drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchal, Bacchante, devotee to Bacchus, bum, guzzler, tavern haunter, drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent, squiffy, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping, nunc est bibendum, Bacchus ever fair and young, drink down all unkindness, O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to.

Repute

N repute, distinction, mark, name, figure, repute, reputation, good repute, high repute, note, notability, notoriety, eclat, the bubble reputation, vogue, celebrity, fame, famousness, renown, popularity, aura popularis, approbation, credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town, name to conjure with, glory, honor, luster, illustriousness, account, regard, respect, reputableness, respectability, good name, good report, fair name, dignity, stateliness, solemnity, grandeur, splendor, nobility, majesty, sublimity, rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status, position, position in society, order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition, greatness, eminence, height, importance, preeminence, supereminence, high mightiness, primacy, top of the ladder, top of the tree, elevation, ascent, superaltation, exaltation, dignification, aggrandizement, dedication, consecration, enthronement, canonization, celebration, enshrinement, glorification, hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis, notability, somebody, classman, man of rank, pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community, chief, first fiddle, cynosure, mirror, flower, pink, pearl, paragon, choice and master spirits of the age, elite, star, sun, constellation, galaxy, ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus, halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors, laurels, memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame, immortality, immortal name, magni nominis umbra, distinguished, distingue, noted, of note, honored, popular, fashionable, in good odor in, favor, in high favor, reputable, respectable, creditable, remarkable, notable, notorious, celebrated, renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of, famous, famed, far-famed, conspicuous, to the front, foremost, in the front rank, in the ascendant, imperishable, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere perennius, time honored, illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant, bright, full-blown, honorific, eminent, prominent, high, in the zenith, at the head of, at the top of the tree, peerless, of the first water, superior, supereminent, preeminent, great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately, august, princely, imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic, sacred, sublime, heaven- born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche, sacrosanct, Int, hail!, all hail!, ave!, viva!, vive!, long life to!, banzai!, glory be to, honor be to?, one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever, sic itur ad astra, fama volat, aut Caesar aut nullus, not to know him argues oneself unknown, none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat, above all Greek above all Roman fame, cineri gloria sera est, great is the glory for the strife is hard, honor virtutis praemium, immensum gloria calcar habet, the glory dies not and the grief is past, vivit post funera virtus.