Synonyms for grandeur
ˈgræn dʒər, -dʒʊərgrandeur

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1. grandeur

   Synonyms:
   dignity, magnificence, display, pomp, ostentation

   Antonyms:
   meanness, paltriness

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1. magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandnessnoun

   the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

   "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"

   Synonyms:
   wideness, magnanimousness, immensity, richness, splendor, enormousness, sizeableness, luster, blaze, nobleness, magnificence, greatness, brilliancy, grandness, vastness, impressiveness, nobility, genius, splendour, lustre, glare, brilliance, importance, immenseness

2. nobility, nobleness, magnanimousness, grandeurnoun

   the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct

   Synonyms:
   aristocracy, nobility, splendor, nobleness, grandness, magnificence, brilliance, magnanimousness, splendour, noblesse

Matched Categories

1. • Elegance
   • Honorableness

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1. grandeurnoun

   Synonyms:
   greatness, sublimity

2. grandeurnoun

   Synonyms:
   majesty, loftiness, stateliness, state, dignity, pomp, magnificence, augustness, splendor

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1. grandeurnoun

   Synonyms:
   splendor, magnificence, elegance, sublimity, majesty, augustness

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1. List of paraphrases for "grandeur":

   greatness, magnificence, magnitude, splendour, splendor, size, scale

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How to use grandeur in a sentence?

1. Georges Bataille:

   Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

2. Albert Camus:

   If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

3. Jean Cocteau:

   The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

4. Corey Knowlton:

   Maybe 100 years from now -- maybe it's delusions of grandeur -- but I hope people will look at it and say this was the turning point that got people to understand what it means to be a conservationist.

5. Raymond Chandler:

   Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.