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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, adjective [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. {Gorge}, n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
Cloud-land, gorgeous land. --Coleridge.
Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. --Shak. -- {Gor"geous*ly}, adverb -- {Gor"geous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gorgeous
adjective: dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "gorgeous": beaming, beautiful, blatant, blooming, brazen, brazenfaced, breathtaking, bright, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, colorful, colory, crude, dazzling, deep-colored, devastating, divine, elephant, excellent, exotic, exquisite, extravagant, fantastic, flagrant, flamboyant, flaring, flaunting, garish, gaudy, gay, gay-colored, glamorous, glaring, glorious, glowing, grand, great, heavenly, high-colored, impressive, intense, killing, lavish, loud, lurid, luxurious, magnificent, marvy, meretricious, neat, nifty, obtrusive, opulent, ostentatious, plush, pretentious, proud, radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, resplendent, rich, rich-colored, screaming, sensational, shameless, shining, showy, smashing, sparkling, spectacular, splendid, splendiferous, splendorous, splendrous, stunning, sublime, sumptuous, super, superb, swell, tawdry, terrific, vivid, vulgar, wonderful
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