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splendiferous
Word definitions for splendiferous in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: glorious , resplendent , splendid ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
considered a playful elaboration since its re-birth in 1843, but in 15c. it was good English, from Medieval Latin splendorifer , from splendor (see splendor ) + ferre "to bear" (see infer ). Compare 15c. splendidious , also splendacious (1843). Bartlett ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. beautiful, splendid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splendiferous \Splen*dif"er*ous\, a. Splendor-bearing; splendid. --Bale (1538). ``A splendiferous woman.'' --Haliburton. [Now used humorously.]
Usage examples of splendiferous.
In the same cunty deft, trapped and undazzled, millions have walked before me, among them one, Blaise Cendrars, who afterwards flew to the moon, thence back to earth and up the Orinoco impersonating a wild man but actually sound as a button, though no longer vulnerable, no longer mortal, a splendiferous hulk of a poem dedicated to the archipelago of insomnia.