Gorgeous

Definition: Gorgeous

Gorgeous

Adjective

1. Dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown".

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

Date "gorgeous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Etymology: Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, adjective. [Old French expression gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; compare to Old French gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and French gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Compare to Gorge, noun.]. (references)

Synonym: Gorgeous

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Evening

Phrase: "midnight, the outpost of advancing day"; "sable-vested Night"; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd".

Ornament

Showy, flashy; gaudy; (vulgar); garish, gairish; gorgeous.

Crosswords: Gorgeous

Lina, you were gorgeous! (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

We've lost Gorgeous George (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Gorgeous isn't everything (Terms of Endearment; writing credit: Larry McMurtry; James L. Brooks)

Okay. And your big problem is that you're married to this gorgeous underwear model who thinks the sun rises and sets in your pants, and that's not enough for you (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

And, you give me the most gorgeous sleep (Underneath It All; performing artist: No Doubt)

It's such a gorgeous sight (Friday I'm in Love; performing artist: The Cure)

The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)

Dead Gorgeous (2002)

You're Gorgeous (1998)

Gorgeous (1995)

GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling: Canvas Carnage (1991)

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

Books

• Barbie Designs by Me: Gorgeous Glamour Outfits (Barbie, Designs by Me) (reference)

• Gorgeous Lies (reference)

• Great Paint Finishes for a Gorgeous Home (reference)

• Guerrilla Gardening: How to Create Gorgeous Gardens for Free (reference)

• Plant This: Best Bets for Year-Round Gorgeous Gardens (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gorgeous (reference)

• Jackie Chan's Gorgeous (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Gorgeous (reference)

• Gorgeous George (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Gorgeous drawing-room in the mansion of Lord Powerscourt, near Dublin, Ireland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Imre Kiralfy's gorgeous production of Venice, the bride of the sea at Olympia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gay Masqueraders Gorgeous Extravaganza Co. everything new. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gorgeous, scenic play, A guilty mother. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

She came dressed beyond description, Dressed in jewels and in satin Far too gorgeous for an empress

They were flaunting, glossy, moire, gorgeous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not prevent them from having a sword at their side

O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Beginning with "gorgeous": gorgeous-looking.

Albanian

madhështor (brilliant, dignified, distinguished, exalted, grandiose, imperial, imposing, impressive, kingly, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, monumental, olympian, palatial, princely, proud, royal, spectacular, splendid, 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, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فائق الجمال, ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, 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, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), ‏بهي (glorious, palmy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разкошен (costly, imperial, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, palatial, princely, profuse, royal, splendiferous, sumptuous, superb, voluptuous), чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), великолепен (champion, colossal, glorious, grand, immense, imperial, magnificent, palatial, pompous, princely, royal, smashing, splashing, splendid, super, superb, wonderful), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

華麗 , 华美. (various references)

Czech

velkolepý (ambitious, awe inspiring, grand, magnificent, monumental, rich, splendid), výteèný (delicious, exquisite, preeminent, prize, wonderful), senzaèní (delicious, fine, grand, great, groovy, hot, magic, mean, sensational, smashing, startling, stunning, swell, terrific, thrilling, wonderful), nádherný (divine, fantastic, glorious, noble, opulent, pompous, princely, regal, rich, splendid, superb), hezký (attractive, considerable, fair, fine, good, good looking, handsome, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty), fantastický (dishy, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, great, incredible, like a dream, magic, out of this world, smashing, sublime, terrific, unbelievable), bájeèný (blissful, fabulous, glorious, great, groovy, magic, magnificent, nailing, priceless, terrific, wonderful, wondrous, yummy). (various references)

Farsi 

مجلل (Gala, Glorious, Grand, Illustrious, Imperial, Luxuriant, Luxurious, Plush, Royalty, Stately, Sumptuous), نمایش دار (Gaudy), زرق وبرق دار (Flamboyant, Gaudy, Loud, Showy, Tawdry, Tinsel), باجلوه . (various references)

Finnish

uhkea (grand, luxuriant, magnificent, splendid), loistelias (grand, luxurious, resplendent, showy, splendid, sumptuous), hemaiseva (stunning). (various references)

French

splendide, somptueux, magnifique. (various references)

German

prachtvoll (beauteous, grand, magnificent, magnificently, nobly, splendid), prächtig (bonny, famously, gallant, glorious, gorgeously, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, noble, nobly, resplendent, rich, showy, splendid, splendorous, sumptuous, sumptuously), farbenprächtig (gaudy, gay, gloriously colorful). (various references)

Greek 

έξοχος (brilliant, magnificent, spanking), μεγαλοπρεπήσ (grand, kingly, magnificence, magnificent, majestic, palatial, stately), ωραίος (fine, good-looking, nice), υπέροχοσ (delicious, preeminent, superb, surpassing, terrific, wonderful), λαμπρόσ (bright, brilliant, glorious, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, splendid). (various references)

Hebrew 

ססגוני (colourful, motley, multicolored, multicoloured, picturesque, varicolored, variegated), נפלא (divine, entrancing, fabulous, lovely, marvellous, splendid, stupendous, superb, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Hungarian

tündöklő (aglow, coruscating, glorious), ragyogó (agleam, beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, glorious, glowing, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lurid, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, sunny, top-hole), pompás (beyond all praise, brilliant, bully, dandy, divine, glorious, grand, grandiose, heavenly, hunky-dory, lavish, lovely, magnificent, pageant, pompous, princely, proud, rattling, rich, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, some, splendid, stunning, superb, swell, tiptop, top notch), pazar (bang-up, baronial, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, prodigal, profuse, slap up, slap-up, smashing, sumptuous), nagyszerû (Ace, admirable, champion, Dandy, goody, grandiose, jolly, magnificent, superb), kápráztató (blinding, dazzling), káprázatos, fényűző (luxurious, opulent, palatial, sumptuous), elkápráztató, bámulatos (amazing, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, surprising, wonderful). (various references)

Indonesian

indah sekali (exquisite), indah permai, indah (aesthetical, chic, decorative, exquisite, picturesque, posh, scenic). (various references)

Italian

vistoso (blatant, catchy, considerable, dashing, flashy, garish, gaudy, important, large, loud, meretricious, noisy, showy, tawdry, trumpery), sfarzoso (magnificent, ostentatious, splendid), magnifico (generous, glorious, lordly, magnificent, splendid, superb, swell, wonderful), fastoso (brilliant, gaudy, luxurious, magnificent, magnificently, pompous, sumptuous), bellissimo (lovely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

花やか (brilliant, florid, gay, showy), 鮮麗 (bright, resplendent beauty, vivid), 豪華 (extravagance, pomp, splendor, wonderful), 華奢 (delicate, luxury, pomp, slender), 華やか (brilliant, florid, gay, showy), 美麗 (beauty), 煌びやか (dazzling, gaudy, gay), 綺羅びやか (dazzling, gaudy, gay), 絢爛たる (dazzling, flowery), 絢爛 (brilliant, dazzling, gaudy), コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convert, convolution, convolve, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goalkeeper, goatability, go-cart, goggles, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, golem, Gordon, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, prime time, traffic light). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゃしゃ (delicate, luxury, pomp, slender), きらびやか (dazzling, gaudy, gay), びれい (beauty), せんれい (age of a vessel, baptism, bright, precedent, resplendent beauty, vivid), かしゃ (borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to convey a certain term, delicate, freight car, luxury, pomp, slender, van), ごうか (effects of karma, extravagance, hell fire, pomp, splendor, valor and decisiveness, wealthy and powerful family, wonderful, world-destroying conflagration), ゴージャス , けんらんたる (dazzling, flowery), けんらん (brilliant, dazzling, gaudy), はなやか (brilliant, florid, gay, showy). (various references)

Korean 

화려한 (Brilliant, Ornate, showy, splendid, sumptuous). (various references)

Manx

stoamey (curvaceous, dashing, fair, good-looking, graceful, large-breasted, personable, shapely, well-formed, well-formed person, well-proportioned), stoamagh (shapely, stately, superb, well-proportioned). (various references)

Norwegian

praktfull. (various references)

Pig Latin

orgeousgay.(various references)

Portuguese

grandioso (grand, grandiose, great, imposing, lofty, magnificent, majestic, monumental, palace, palatial, spectacular, splendid, sublime, vast), suntuoso (costly, magnificent, palace, palatial, regal, sumptuous), magnificente (grand, luxurious, regal, resplendent, royal, splendid, stately, sumptuous), esplendoroso (magnificent, olympian), esplêndido (bully, clipping, crack, famous, glorious, lovely, magnificent, nailing, noble, palmary, princely, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, superb, topping, wonderful), deslumbrante (flaring, glamorous, glamourous, glaring), ótimo (boss, champion, clinking, clipping, famous, fine, first-class, first-rate, glorious, great, nailer, nailing, optimum, plummy, rattling, ripping, scrumptious, slapping, spanking, splendiferous, superb, superior, tiptop, top-hole, topping). (various references)

Romanian

strãlucitor (ablaze, bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, flashy, fresh, fulgent, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, vivid), strãlucit (bright, brilliant, brilliantly, illustrious, luminous), splendid (brilliant, exquisite, fine, glorious, grand, lofty, magnificent, noble, princely, proud, refulgent, resplendent, splendid, stunning, superb), somptuos (luxurious, magnificent, palatial, plush, princely, rich, richly, sumptuous, sumptuously), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), fastuos (pompous, showy, sumptuous), falnic (glorious, portly, remarkable, splendid, stately, towering). (various references)

Russian 

великолепный (celestial, colossal, excellent, first rate, frabjous, glorious, immense, magnificent, masterly, princely, proud, rattling good, royal, scrumptious, sensational, splendid, superb, tops). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

velelepan (magnificent), sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, great, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, neat, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, stunning, superb, terrific). (various references)

Spanish

vistoso (colorful, colourful, flamboyant, gay, ornate, showy). (various references)

Swedish

härlig (delectable, delicious, delightful, fine, glorious, great, lovely, luscious, splendid). (various references)

Thai

โอ่อ่า (ceremonious). (various references)

Turkish

göz kamaştırıcı (blinding, dazzling, doggy, flaring, glamorous, glaring, harsh, incandescent, resplendent), görkemli (brave, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, gallant, grandiose, imperial, magnificent, majestic, olympian, palatial, pompous, proud, puffy, queenlike, queenly, refulgent, splendid, stately, sublime, sumptuous), parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, 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, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), muhteşem (August, corking, glorious, grand, imperial, lordly, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, majestic, noble, olympian, regal, resplendent, royal, slashing, solemn, spectacular, splendid, stately, stupendous, superb), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, keen, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum). (various references)

Ukrainian

яскравий (bright, brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, garish, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, lightsome, noisy, obvious, oriental, pictorial, picturesque, powerful, quicksilver, sober, starry, vivid), чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), пишномовний (altisonant, baggy, declamatory, exaggerative, grandiloquent, heroic, magniloquent, mannered, opulent, ornate, orotund, ossianic, puffy, rhetorical, stilted, turgid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tráng lệ (imperial, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, princely, rich, splendent, splendid, superb), rực rỡ (fine, flamboyant, fulgent, gay, glorious, illuminant, lustrous, palmy, refulgent, sheeny, splendid), lộng lẫy (gallant, lustrous, plush, princely, rich, royally, sheeny, splendent, splendid), kỳ diệu hoa mỹ, đẹp đẽ (lovely). (various references)

Welsh

gorwych. (various references)

superbi, superbiam, superbias, superbiat, superbierit, superbis, superbit. (various references)

gorge. (various references)

gorgias. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "gorgeous": gorgeously, gorgeousness, gorgeousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gorgeous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: georgeous, goergeous, gogeous, Goreau, goregous, gorfeous, gorgeaus, gorgeos, gorgeou, gorgeouses, gorgerous, gorgeuos, gorgias, gorgious, gorgius, gorgous, gorguss, Gougousse, gourgeous, Gyorgyos, orgulous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gougers.

-2 letters: erugos, gorges, gouger, gouges, gregos, grouse, gurges, rogues, rouges, rugose.

-3 letters: erugo, euros, goers, gogos, goose, gores, gorge, gorse, gouge, grego, grogs, grues, gurge, ogres, rogue, roose, roues, rouge, rouse, sorgo, surge, urges.

-4 letters: eggs, egos, ergo, ergs, eros, euro, goer, goes, gogo, goos, gore, grog, grue, ogre, ores, ours, regs, roes.

+2 letters: gorgeously.

+4 letters: gorgeousness.

+5 letters: nongregarious.