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Definition: Splendid |
SplendidAdjective1. Having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity". 2. Characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "splendid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: SplendidSynonyms: brilliant (adj), glorious (adj), magnificent (adj), resplendent (adj), splendiferous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Brilliant, shining; beamy, beaming; sparkling, splendid, resplendent, dazzling, glowing; glossy, sleek. |
Ostentation | Splendid, magnificent, sumptuous. |
Repute | Illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright; full-blown; honorific. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well, it was the way he put it. He said didn't I think it would be a splendid thing for Lucy if he married her and wasn't I off my head with joy (A Room with a View; writing credit: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. based on the novel by E.M. Forster.) Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni) All splendid lovers have just dreadful times (The Parent Trap; writing credit: Erich Kästner; David Swift) Oh Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) Yes, it's such a marvelous contrast to my own splendid good health (Get Smart; writing credit: Shinichi Sekizawa; Futaro Yamada) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love Is a Splendid Illusion (1969) Splendid Fellows (1934) Her Splendid Folly (1933) One Splendid Hour (1929) The Splendid Crime (1926) | |
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![]() | In the U.S. Navy section of a cemetary at Cherbourg, France. Photographed circa the early 1900s. James King, 2nd, described in Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair's "Two Years on the Alabama" as "a splendid specimen of an Irishman" had joined the crew of CSS Alabama at Singapore in December 1863. Mortally wounded in the battle with USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg on 19 June 1864, he died after being taken to that ship following the action. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | What a splendid thing the "little old red school house" was for this country ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Here is Robertson, the son of a wealthy merchant, with splendid prospect ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | President McKinley's splendid welcome to Gen. Wheeler's home city, Decatur, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The Splendid Altar, Temple of Our Saviour, Moscow, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Grand birds eye view of the Great East River suspension bridge Connecting the cities of New York & Brooklyn : Showing also the splendid panorama of the bay and the port of New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mark E. Swan's latest farcical success, the effervescent ecstasy, Whose baby are you? a splendid cast present this fantastic farce. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Firenze - Italia" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "Splendid day..." |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. |
Plato | Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. |
Sallust | The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is splendid and lasting possession. |
Vice President Thomas Jefferson | The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | These are somber facts for anyone to have to recite on the morrow of a victory gained by so much splendid comradeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy; but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time remains. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The seekers of the future revolve about the splendid present |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | To match the magnitude of our tasks, we need the energies of our people--enlisted not only in grand enterprises, but more importantly in those small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal. |
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| "Splendid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Splendid" is used about 1,696 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 1,696 | 4,946 |
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| Germany | Splendid Medien AG |
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Expressions using "splendid": splendid house ♦ splendid idea ♦ splendid jewels ♦ splendid joke ♦ splendid result ♦ splendid show. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "splendid": splendid-looking, splendid-there. | |
Ending with "splendid": not-so-splendid, over-splendid. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "splendid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | plot shkëlqim, madhështor (brilliant, dignified, distinguished, exalted, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, imposing, impressive, kingly, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, monumental, olympian, palatial, princely, proud, royal, spectacular, stately, sublime, superb), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked). (various references) | |
Arabic | رائع (admirable), فخم (deluxe, grand, grandiose, imperial, imposing, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plushy, pompous, pontifical, regal, rich, royal, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), فاخر (brag, deluxe, excellent, exquisite, fancy, fine, glory, luxurious, superior), ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, choice, clipping, cool, dandy, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, famous, fancy, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, mighty, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, select, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thoroughbred, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), مترف (deluxe, luxuriant, luxurious, rich, sumptuous, superb, sybaritic), مشرق (agleam, beaming, beamy, bright, brilliant, clear, luminous, radiant, shining, shiny, vivid), ساطع (bright, dazzling, effulgent, glaring, incandescent, shining, spotless), جليل (august, dignified, exalted, glorious, grand, grave, great, honorable, honourable, important, imposing, lofty, magnificent, portly, respectable, significant, solemn, stately, sublime, venerable), رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), باهر (admirable, dazzling, flaring, glamorous, glamourous, mesmeric, out of this world, smashing), بديع (admirable, adorable, amazing, excellent, fine, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, original, superb, unique, unprecedented, wonderful). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), великолепен (champion, colossal, glorious, gorgeous, grand, immense, imperial, magnificent, palatial, pompous, princely, royal, smashing, splashing, super, superb, wonderful), отличен (alpha plus, banner, crack, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, slick, spanking, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), блестящ (agleam, bright, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendiferous, superb, vivid), прекрасен (admirable, adorable, beauteous, delectable, excellent, lovely, marvellous, marvelous, noble), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton). (various references) | |
Chinese | 精彩 (brilliant). (various references) | |
Czech | skvìlý (accomplished, admirable, bright, brilliant, dashing, distinguished, excellent, fine, glorious, grand, palmy, proud, swell, tiptop, wonderful), velkolepý (ambitious, awe inspiring, gorgeous, grand, magnificent, monumental, rich), ohromný (dishy, enormous, formidable, gigantic, great, huge, immense, mean, stupendous, terrific, towering, tremendous, vast, vasty, whacking), nádherný (divine, fantastic, glorious, gorgeous, noble, opulent, pompous, princely, regal, rich, superb), úžasný (admirable, amazing, astonishing, bewildering, glorious, hot, nailing, phenomenal, prodigious, stupendous, terrific, tremendous, wonderful). (various references) | |
Dutch | achtwaaiervis (annual killifish, splendid pearlfish). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرزرق وبرق (Gaily, Gaudy), عالی (Beautiful, Brave, Capital, Excellent, Exquisite, Famous, Fine, Gallant, High, Immense, Knockout, Lofty, Much, Palmary, Remarkable, Ripping, Spiffy, Super, Superb, Superlative, Supreme, Swank, Unrivaled), باجلال , براق (Glossy, Lucid, Shiny, Silken, Sleek). (various references) | |
Finnish | suurenmoinen (grand, great, imposing, magnificent), upea (imposing, magnificent, stately), uljas (brave, gallant, noble, stately, valiant), uhkea (gorgeous, grand, luxuriant, magnificent), oivallinen (excellent, fine, first-rate), mainio (excellent, fine), loistelias (gorgeous, grand, luxurious, resplendent, showy, sumptuous), loistava (bright, brilliant, glorious brilliant, magnificent, shining), komea (fine, good-looking, grand, imposing, magnificent, stately), erinomainen (capital, excellent, fine). (various references) | |
French | splendide, riche, magnifique, formidable, excellent, épatant (spanking). (various references) | |
German | großartig (admirable, brillant, brilliantly, excellent, genial, gorgeous, gorgeously, grand, grandiose, grandiosely, grandly, great, greatly, immense, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, marvelously, prodigious, superb, superbly, superior, terrific, wonderful), prächtig (bonny, famously, gallant, glorious, gorgeous, gorgeously, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, noble, nobly, resplendent, rich, showy, splendorous, sumptuous, sumptuously), glänzend (brilliant, brilliantly, clinking, dazzling, effulgent, effulgently, gleaming, gleamy, glistening, glittering, glossily, glossing, glossy, ingenious, ingeniously, lustered, lustrous, lustrously, marvelous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, resplendently, sheeny, shinily, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendidly, vintage). (various references) | |
Greek | έξοχα (primely, splendidly), έξοχοσ (Dandy, eminent, excellent, fine, high, peachy, splendiferous, sterling, super, swell, tops, worthy), υπέροχος (fabulous, magnificent, wonderful), εξαίσιος (excellent), λαμπρόσ (bright, brilliant, glorious, gorgeous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפואר (glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, luxurious, magnificent, palatial, stately, sumptuous), מצוין (capital, distinguished, eminent, excellent, fine, outstanding, ripping, shining, spanking, sterling, superb, surpassing, swell), אדיר (glorious, great, mighty, noble, powerful), הדור (adorned, adornment, elegance, elegant, embellishment, finery, glorious, honouring, luxe, ornamentation), נפלא (divine, entrancing, fabulous, gorgeous, lovely, marvellous, stupendous, superb, wonderful, wondrous), נהדר (exquisite, glorious, grand, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, majestic, superb). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ragyogó (agleam, beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lurid, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, shiny, starry, sunny, top-hole), pompás (beyond all praise, brilliant, bully, dandy, divine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, heavenly, hunky-dory, lavish, lovely, magnificent, pageant, pompous, princely, proud, rattling, rich, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, some, stunning, superb, swell, tiptop, top notch), nagyszerű (ace, admirable, bitching, bodacious, grandiose, hunky-dory, magnificent, phenomenal, pompous, sublime, superb, tiptop). (various references) | |
Indonesian | baik sekali (excellent). (various references) | |
Italian | splendido (brilliant, proud, superb, wonderful), sfarzoso (gorgeous, magnificent, ostentatious), magnifico (generous, glorious, gorgeous, lordly, magnificent, superb, swell, wonderful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 旨い (appetizing, clever, delicious, expert, fortunate, promising, skillful, successful, wise), 壮大 (grand, magnificent, majestic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ごうかい (exciting, hearty, heroic, largehearted, lively, stirring), ちょうじょうたる (excellent, piled up, placed one upon another), はえある (glorious), はればれしい (clear), みごと (admirable, beautiful, magnificent), けっこう (architecture, cancellation of lecture or class, carrying out, circulation, construction, delicious, doing, nice, suspension of service, sweet, tolerably, well enough, wonderful), らんまんたる (glorious, luxuriant), あっぱれ (admirable, praiseworthy, well done!), めざましい (brilliant, remarkable, striking), ちょうじょう (excellent, one's elderor superior, peak, piled one upon another, summit, top), こうきある (brilliant, glorious, shining), すばらしい (magnificent, wonderful), かいぜつ, かっかくたる (brilliant, glorious), ほこらしい (arrogant, haughty, magnificent, proud), ほうれい (beautiful, common people, laws and ordinances, rich, rules concerning application of laws, the masses), うまい (appetizing, clever, delicious, expert, fortunate, promising, skillful, successful, wise), きょうせい (blackmail, coercion, compulsion, correction, enforcement, extortion, great, lovely voice, low singing voice, magnificent, obligation, paragenesis, persistent demand, reform, remedy, student teacher, symbiosis, training), そうだい (grand, magnificent, majestic, representative, Waseda University), ハラショー (agreed, good, wonderful), りっぱ (elegant, fine, handsome, imposing, legal, legitimate, prominent). (various references) | |
Korean | 화려한 (Brilliant, gorgeous, Ornate, showy, sumptuous). (various references) | |
Manx | soilsheanagh (beaming, brilliant, glistening, glowing, lit up, luminous, lustrous, radiant, shiny, vivid), braew (brave, fine, handsome, nice, precious, rare), ard-yindyssagh (amazing, fantastic, outstanding, phenomenal), aalin (beautiful, fair, handsome). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | endidsplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esplêndido (bully, clipping, crack, famous, glorious, gorgeous, lovely, magnificent, nailing, noble, palmary, princely, ripping, scrumptious, splendiferous, stunning, superb, topping, wonderful). (various references) | |
Romanian | superb (first rate, grandiose, noble, stately, superb, superbly, unearthly), strãlucitor (ablaze, bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, flashy, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, starry, vivid), splendid (brilliant, exquisite, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, lofty, magnificent, noble, princely, proud, refulgent, resplendent, stunning, superb), sãrbãtoresc (feastly, festal, festival, festive, holiday-like, merry, solemn), minunat (beautiful, beautifully, best, brave, bright, capital, champion, charming, delightfully, exceptional, jolly, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, passing, proud, royal, special, strange, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonderful, wonder-working), magnific (grand, grandiose, magnificent, magnificently, noble, royal), mãreţ (aerial, August, brilliant, grand, grandiose, kingly, loftily, lofty, magnificent, magnificently, majestic, mighty, palatial, princely, proud, stately, sumptuous, unearthly), mândru (big, cavalier, cock-a-hoop, conceited, erect, handsome, haughty, high, high minded, high pitched, high-flown, loftily, lofty, proud, stately, wonderful), falnic (glorious, gorgeous, portly, remarkable, stately, towering), excelent (a1, best, capital, champion, clinking, consummate, crack, excellent, excellently, exquisite, fine, first rate, golden, great, noble, passing, roaring, special, that's capital, tiptop, topping), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), ales (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, supreme), admirabil (admirable, admirably, beautiful, brave, capital, excellent, grand, special, that's splendid, tiptop, wonderful), împãrãtesc (imperial, kingly, majestic, monarchal, royal). (various references) | |
Russian | роскошный (de luxe, deluxe, lordly, luxurious, palatial, plushy, posh, princely, rank, rich, sumptuous, voluptuous), великолепный (celestial, colossal, excellent, first rate, frabjous, glorious, gorgeous, immense, magnificent, masterly, princely, proud, rattling good, royal, scrumptious, sensational, superb, tops), замечательный (admirable, corking, crack-a-jack, eminent, great, lummy, marvellous, nailing, rare, rattling, remarkable, swell, unexceptionable, wonderful), первоклассный (bang-up, capital, champion, classy, first class, first rate, first-rate, gilt-edged, hunky-dory, lummy, pucka, pukka, sterling, super, tiptop, top flight, topflight, top-flight, top-hole, top-line, topnotch, top-notch, top-quality). (various references) | |
Scottish | gasda (excellent, first rate, good), brèagha (beautiful), àluinn (beautiful, elegant, handsome). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendiferous), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, gorgeous, great, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, neat, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, stunning, superb, terrific). (various references) | |
Spanish | espléndido (brave, generous, gorgeous, grand, lavish, liberal, magnificent, proud, splendent, splendiferous, superb). (various references) | |
Swedish | praktfull (flamboyant, gorgeous, magnificent, resplendent, sumptuous), präktig (excellent, superb), härlig (delectable, delicious, delightful, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, lovely, luscious), glänsande (lustrous, refulgent, resplendent, shiny). (various references) | |
Thai | แจ่มจรัส, วิเศษ ((I) love it!, froody, magic, magical). (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, raving, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), muhteşem (August, corking, glorious, gorgeous, grand, imperial, lordly, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, majestic, noble, olympian, regal, resplendent, royal, slashing, solemn, spectacular, stately, stupendous, superb), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), mükemmel (accomplished, all around, alpha plus, ambrosial, bang up, banner, beyond praise, bully, capital, champion, classic, classical, classy, commanding, complete, consummate, cool, copybook, Dandy, dreamy, elegant, excellent, famous, famously, faultless, fine, finished, first class, great, immense, jolly good, no mean, par excellence, perfect, ripping, scrumptious, slap up, smashing, smooth, solid, sovereign, spiffing, spiffy, splendiferous, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum), görkemli (brave, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, gallant, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, magnificent, majestic, olympian, palatial, pompous, proud, puffy, queenlike, queenly, refulgent, stately, sublime, sumptuous). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сяючий (alight, auroral, beaming, beamy, coruscating, fulgent, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining), розкішний (baronial, beautiful, belgravian, bonzer, costly, dressy, exuberant, glittering, large, lordly, luxurious, palatial, ritzy, sumptuous, swank, upholstered, voluptuous), чудово (adorably, capitally, finely, ideally, incomparably, nobly, noteworthily, perfectly, primely, remarkably, stunningly, super-duper, very good, wonder, wow), блискучий (brilliant, coruscating, crackajack, crackerjack, crackling, glossy, incandescent, lambent, luminous, lustrous, nitid, oriental, polished, quicksilver, radiant, resplendent, sensational, shining, showy, signal, sparkling, splendent), прекрасний (admirable, adorable, ambrosial, beauteous, capital, delectable, delicious, fine, out of this world, something like, splendiferous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tuyệt (bonzer, clipping, splendiferous), tráng lệ (gorgeous, imperial, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, princely, rich, splendent, superb), tốt (all right, decently, famously, feracious, fertile, fine, hunky, o.k.), rực rỡ (fine, flamboyant, fulgent, gay, glorious, gorgeous, illuminant, lustrous, palmy, refulgent, sheeny), lộng lẫy (gallant, gorgeous, lustrous, plush, princely, rich, royally, sheeny, splendent), đẹp (bonny, charming, comely, gainly, good-looking, goodly, natty, picturesque). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysblennydd, rhagorol (admirable, excellent), penigamp (excellent), gwych (brilliant, fine), godidog (excellent), campus (admirable, excellent, grand), ardderchog (excellent, noble). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adparatum, adparatus, aureolam, basilica, basilicae, basilicam, luculenta, magnificus, opimus, opulentus, palmarium, praeclara, praeclaram, praeclaras, praeclaris, praeclaritas, praeclarus, speciosa, speciosae, speciosam, speciosas, speciosi, speciosior, speciosique, speciosis, speciosissima, speciosissimam, speciosissimas, speciositas, specioso, speciosum, speciosus, splendida, splendidae, splendidas, splendide, splendidum, splendidus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | bâmîm. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | betlic. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "splendid": splendider, splendidest, splendidly, splendidness, splendidnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Splendid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asplenii, shplendid, Silenzio, spendi, spendid, spiendid, splend, splended, Splendide, splenid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "splendid" (pronounced sple"ndud) |
| 6 | -l e" n d u d | blended. |
| 5 | -e" n d u d | amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, attended, befriended, bended, commended, comprehended, contended, defended, depended, descended, distended, ended, expended, extended, fended, intended, mended, offended, overextended, pretended, recommended, suspended, tended, transcended, trended, unamended, unattended, unintended. |
| 4 | -n d u d | abounded, astounded, backhanded, banded, blinded, bonded, bounded, branded, candid, commanded, compounded, confounded, corresponded, demanded, disbanded, landed, dumbfounded, evenhanded, expanded, expounded, founded, funded, grounded, handed, hounded, impounded, masterminded, minded, overfunded, pounded, propounded, rebounded, refunded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, rounded, sanded, seconded, sounded, stranded, surrounded, unbounded, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unfounded, unfunded, winded, wounded. |
| 3 | -d u d | acceded, accorded, abided, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: spindled. | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: dindles, dispend, piddles, slidden, spindle, splined. | |
-2 letters: dindle, dispel, lisped, pensil, piddle, sidled, sliped, sniped, spiled, spined, spinel, spline. | |
-3 letters: deils, delis, dined, dines, idled, idles, isled, lends, lenis, liens, lined, lines, nided, nides, peins, pends, penis, piled, piles, pined, pines, plied, plies, sided, sidle, siped, slide, slipe, snide, snipe, speil, spend, spied. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-l-n-p-s" | |
+2 letters: displanted, splendider, splendidly. | |
+3 letters: disciplined, splendidest. | |
+4 letters: lopsidedness, postdeadline, simpleminded, splendidness. | |
+5 letters: indisciplined, philodendrons, undisciplined. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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