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Splendiferous

Definition: Splendiferous

Splendiferous

Adjective

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Splendiferous

Synonyms: glorious (adj), resplendent (adj), splendid (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Splendiferous

English words defined with "splendiferous": gloriousresplendentsplendid. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Splendiferous

DomainTitle

Books

  • Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey into the Past: The Most Rambunctious, Scandalous, Rapscallion, Splendiferous, Pugnacious, Spectacular, Illustrious, Prodigious (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Splendiferous

"Splendiferous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Splendiferous" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Splendiferous

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

splendiferous

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Splendiferous

Language Translations for "splendiferous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

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, splendid, whizzbang, wicked). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разкошен (costly, gorgeous, imperial, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, palatial, princely, profuse, royal, sumptuous, superb, voluptuous), блестящ (agleam, bright, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, superb, vivid), измамно блестящ. (various references)

   

German

  

herrlich (agreeable, beautifully, blissfully, brilliantly, enjoyable, funny, glorious, gloriously, gorgeous, gorgeously, lovely, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, marvelously, nice, pleasant, splendid, splendidly, superb, wonderful). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έξοχοσ (Dandy, eminent, excellent, fine, high, peachy, splendid, sterling, super, swell, tops, worthy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mesés (fabled, fabulous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

endiferoussplay

   

Portuguese

  

magnífico (glorious, lord-like, magnificent, splendid, superb, wonderful), excelente (accomplished, champion, choice, classic, classical, crack-a-jack, distinctive, excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, golden, good, great, magnificent, palmary, standout, super, superior, tiptop, top-hole, topping, undeniable), esplêndido (bully, clipping, crack, famous, glorious, gorgeous, lovely, magnificent, nailing, noble, palmary, princely, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, stunning, superb, topping, wonderful), ótimo (boss, champion, clinking, clipping, famous, fine, first-class, first-rate, glorious, gorgeous, great, nailer, nailing, optimum, plummy, rattling, ripping, scrumptious, slapping, spanking, superb, superior, tiptop, top-hole, topping). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прекраснейший. (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, splendid). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

espléndido (brave, generous, gorgeous, grand, lavish, liberal, magnificent, proud, splendent, splendid, superb). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sjangdobel. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ยอ"เยี่ยม (excellent, exceptional, exquisite). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, 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, splendid, super, superb, superlative, that takes the cake, the dandy, thorough, thoroughgoing, tiptop, to a turn, to the nines, topping, triumphant, unique), göz alıcı (attractive, eye-catching, flamboyant, glamorous, glittering, grandiose, jazzy, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, spectacular, staring, striking), acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, odd, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

прекрасний (admirable, adorable, ambrosial, beauteous, capital, delectable, delicious, fine, out of this world, something like, splendid). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tuyệt (bonzer, clipping, splendid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Splendiferous

Derivations

Words beginning with "splendiferous": splendiferously, splendiferousness, splendiferousnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Splendiferous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spendiferous, splendifirous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Splendiferous"

Words rhyming with "splendiferous" (pronounced 'Splen*dif"er*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Splendiferous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: pridefulness.

-2 letters: unprofessed.

-3 letters: depression, despoilers, floridness, friendless, perfusions, prelusions, repulsions, splendours, splendrous.

-4 letters: delousers, delusions, despoiler, dispenser, disposure, enfolders, felonries, flounders, fluidness, fluorenes, fluorides, fluorines, foresides, foundries, fusileers, indorsees, infolders, isoprenes, leprosies, luridness, peloruses, perfusion, perilunes, pilseners, prelusion, professed, purloined, redispose, reinfused, reinfuses, reposeful, repulsion, sourdines, spindlers, spinulose, splendors, splendour, superfine, superlies, suspender.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: splendiferously.

 

+4 letters: splendiferousness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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