different between magnificent vs storied

English

Etymology

From Middle French magnificent, from Latin magnificentior, comparative of magnificus (“great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.”), from magnus (“great”) + -ficens, a form of -ficiens, the regular form, in compounds, of faciens, a participle of facere (“to do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ??n?f?s?nt/
• Hyphenation: mag?nif?i?cent

Adjective

magnificent (comparative more magnificent, superlative most magnificent)

1. Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
2. Grand or noble in action.
3. Exceptional for its kind.

Derived terms

• magnificently
• magnificent frigatebird

Related terms

• magnificence
• beneficent
• maleficent
• munificent

Translations

Further reading

• magnificent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• magnificent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• magnificent at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Verb

magnificent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of magnific?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st???id/

Alternative forms

• storeyed (UK, sense 3)

Adjective

storied (comparative more storied, superlative most storied)

1. much talked or written about
2. historical
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.

3. (chiefly US) having multiple storeys; multistoried
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

     We mean a porch, or cloister, or the like, of one contignation, and not in storied buildings.

Verb

storied

1. simple past tense and past participle of story

Anagrams

• destroi, doiters, editors, oestrid, ostreid, roisted, sortied, steroid, tie rods, tierods, triodes