Grandeur
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English
Noun
Grandeur (uncountable)- The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
- Nobility.
- (archaic, rare) Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
Adjectives for Grandeur
wild; political; religious; weird; imposing; solemn; primitive; tantalizing; gloomy; inherent; contemplative; tumultuous; superior; ancient; superlative; labored; monotonous; human; venerable; sustained; shadowy; rough; solitary; husbanded; superficial; desolate; poetic; magnificent; severe false; massive; hideous; infinite; melodious pristine; architectural; sarcastic; deceitful dilapidated; original; savage; civic; sublime; dreary.
Verbs for Grandeur
abate—; acquaint with—; borrow — from; contemplate—; debase—; discipline—; emulate—; equal—; exhibit—; Intimate—; love—; parade—; perceive—; reduce—; ridicule—; rise in—; sacrifice—; stagger by—; touch with—; witness—; —diminishes; — expands; —impresses; —impels; —soars.
Synonyms for Grandeur
majesty, stateliness, dignity, augustness, pomp, splendor, style, magnificence, greatness, loftiness.
Antonyms for Grandeur
humility, simplicity, plainness, quietness, dullness, lowliness.
Thesaurus
Babylonian splendor, ampleness, amplitude, augustness, bigness, broadness, bulk, capaciousness, comprehensiveness, consequence, conspicuousness, copiousness, courtliness, dignifiedness, dignity, distinction, elaborateness, elegance, elevation, eminence, enormity, enormousness, exaltation, excellence, expanse, expansiveness, extensiveness, formidableness, fullness, generousness, gigantism, glory, gorgeousness, grandiosity, grandness, gravity, great scope, greatness, high mightiness, hugeness, immensity, importance, imposingness, impressiveness, infinity, intensity, kingliness, largeness, lavishness, loftiness, lordliness, luxuriousness, luxury, magnificence, magnitude, majesty, mark, might, mightiness, muchness, nobility, nobleness, notability, note, outstandingness, plenitude, plushness, pomp, poshness, power, pride of bearing, pride of place, princeliness, prodigiousness, profundity, prominence, proud bearing, proudness, regality, resplendence, ritziness, sedateness, significance, sobriety, solemnity, spaciousness, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, state, stateliness, strength, stupendousness, sublimity, sumptuousness, supereminence, tallness, tremendousness, vastness, venerability, wideness, worthiness
Etymology
From Old French grandeur < grand < Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).
Pronunciation
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
French
Etymology
grand
Pronunciation
Noun
Grandeur f. (plural Grandeurs)
- size
- (physics, mathematics) magnitude, quantity
- grandeur
