different between splendid vs lustrous
splendid
English
Etymology
From Latin splendidus, from splendere (“to shine”) +? -idus (“adjective forming suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?spl?nd?d/
- Rhymes: -?nd?d
Adjective
splendid (comparative splendider or more splendid, superlative splendidest or most splendid)
- Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright.
- Gorgeous; magnificent; sumptuous; of remarkable beauty.
- Brilliant, excellent, of a very high standard.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Hart had to make two splendid saves as Van Persie and Di María took aim and Fellaini should really have done better with a headed chance.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
Synonyms
- great
- magnificent
- marvellous
Derived terms
- splendidness
- splendid first strike
Related terms
- resplend
- resplendent
- splendor
Translations
Anagrams
- spindled
Romanian
Etymology
From French splendide, from Latin splendidus.
Adjective
splendid m or n (feminine singular splendid?, masculine plural splendizi, feminine and neuter plural splendide)
- splendid
Declension
splendid From the web:
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lustrous
English
Etymology
lustre +? -ous
Adjective
lustrous (comparative more lustrous, superlative most lustrous)
- Having a glow or lustre.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]
- Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
- 1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, [2]
- Or Time and Space,
- Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
- Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
- Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
- Be ye my Gods.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,[3]
- It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.
- 1936, Wallace Stevens, "Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, p. 123,
- The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle
- Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,
- Flood on flood, of our returning sun.
- 2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, 2001, Chapter 1,[4]
- The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]
- As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.
Translations
lustrous From the web:
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- what is lustrous hair and skin
- what are lustrous materials
- what is lustrous metal
- what are lustrous non metals
- what is lustrous hair
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