Antonyms for glorious
ˈglɔr i əs, ˈgloʊr-glo·ri·ous

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1. glorious

   Antonyms:
   abject, base, contemptible, despicable, lamentable, miserable, mournful, moving, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, sorrowful, touching, woful, wretched

   Synonyms:
   august, beneficent, commanding, dignified, exalted, grand, great, helpful, lofty, mighty, noble, sublime, superb, superior

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1. gloriousadjective

   having or deserving or conferring glory

   "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature"

   Antonyms:
   unsung, obscure, inglorious, unimpressive, ugly, unknown

   Synonyms:
   splendiferous, brilliant, splendid, magnificent, resplendent

2. brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendidadjective

   characterized by grandeur

   "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony"

   Antonyms:
   inglorious, obscure, unsung, ugly, unimpressive, unknown

   Synonyms:
   fantabulous, splendiferous, magnificent, excellent, resplendent, superb, first-class, bright, smart as a whip, brainy, splendid, brilliant, vivid

3. glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferousadjective

   having great beauty and splendor

   "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"

   Antonyms:
   inglorious, obscure, ugly, unknown, unsung, unimpressive

   Synonyms:
   fantabulous, splendiferous, magnificent, excellent, resplendent, first-class, splendid, brilliant

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1. gloriousadjective

   Synonyms:
   magnificent, grand, resplendent, splendid, admirable, noble, excellent, hilarious, ecstatic, elated

How to use glorious in a sentence?

1. Alex Gibney:

   I think a lot of these people who over promise and imagine that they can do things well beyond what anybody else has done so far, they are possessed of a certain delusional quality — a certain kind of narcissistic belief in their own powers, that's become, in a way, kind of my stock and trade : to examine those characters,'cause there's something glorious about that.

2. Dan Stevens:

   Like all great Disney films and all great movie musicals, it's in glorious technicolor and it really embraces all colors of the rainbow, beauty and the Beast.

3. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi:

   He had his glorious moment with the Pope coming this week. He is a devout Catholic.

4. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras:

   The most glorious pages in this country's history were pages of courage and virtue, i urge you to say 'No' again!

5. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   What a glorious day for Israel, we are in Jerusalem and we are here to stay.

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