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| Main Entry: | glory |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | boast, exult |
| Synonyms: | crow, gloat, relish, revel, triumph, jubilate, pride oneself, take delight |
| Antonyms: | condemn, criticize |
| Main Entry: | glory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fame, importance |
| Synonyms: | celebrity, dignity, distinction, eminence, exaltation, grandeur, greatness, honor, immortality, kudos, magnificence, majesty, nobility, praise, prestige, renown, reputation, splendor, triumph, illustriousness, sublimity |
| Antonyms: | unimportance, unknown |
| Main Entry: | glory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great beauty |
| Synonyms: | brightness, effulgence, grandeur, luster, magnificence, majesty, pageantry, pomp, radiance, richness, splendor, brilliance, fineness, gorgeousness, preciousness, resplendence, sublimity, sumptuousness |
| Antonyms: | ugliness |
| Main Entry: | delight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make happy; experience happiness |
| Synonyms: | allure, amuse, attract, charm, cheer, content, divert, enchant, enrapture, entertain, exult, fascinate, freak out, gladden, glory, gratify, groove*, hit the spot*, knock out*, please, pleasure, ravish, rejoice, satisfy, score, send, slay, thrill, turn on, wow, arride, be the ticket, delectate, go over big, jubilate, knock dead, tickle pink, tickle to death |
| Antonyms: | depress, disappoint, dismay, distress, pain, trouble |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, majesty, merit, morality, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, station, stature, status, virtue, worth, courtliness, loftiness, nobleness, seemliness, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | exultation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, reveling |
| Synonyms: | delight, elation, glee, glory, happiness, joy, jubilation, merriment, rejoicing, satisfaction, transport, triumph, crowing, gloating, high spirits, joyousness, jubilance |
| Antonyms: | discouragement |
| Main Entry: | fame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebrity |
| Synonyms: | éclat, acclaim, acclamation, account, acknowledgment, character, credit, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, esteem, estimation, exaltation, favor, glory, greatness, heyday, honor, immortality, kudos, laurels, luster, majesty, name, nobility, note, notoriety, place, popularity, position, prominence, rank, recognition, regard, renown, report, reputation, splendor, standing, stardom, station, superiority, illustriousness, preeminence, public esteem, rep, repute |
| Main Entry: | gloat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exclaim triumph |
| Synonyms: | celebrate, crow*, exult, glory, rejoice, relish, triumph, vaunt, whoop*, rub it in |
| Antonyms: | commiserate, sympathize, be sad |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grandeur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great importance |
| Synonyms: | beauty, breadth, celebrity, circumstance, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, fame, glory, gravity, greatness, immensity, magnificence, majesty, might, nobility, opulence, pomp, richness, splendor, state, sway, transcendency, vastness, amplitude, augustness, brilliance, expansiveness, fineness, grandiosity, handsomeness, impressiveness, inclusiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, preeminence, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, superbity |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | halo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ring of light |
| Synonyms: | aura, aureole, aurora, corona, glory, nimbus, radiance, aureola, crown of light, halation |
| Main Entry: | heaven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where God lives; wonderful feeling |
| Synonyms: | Shangri-la*, Utopia, atmosphere, azure*, beyond, bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, empyrean, enchantment, eternity, felicity, firmament, glory, happiness, happy hunting ground*, harmony, hereafter, immortality, kingdom, kingdom come, nirvana, paradise, promised land*, rapture, sky*, transport, upstairs, Arcadia, Canaan, Elysium, Zion, afterworld, eternal home, eternal rest, fairyland, great unknown, heights, life everlasting, life to come, next world, pearly gates, the blue, wonderland |
| Antonyms: | hell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kudos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | praise, acclaim |
| Synonyms: | applause, credit, distinction, eminence, esteem, fame, flattery, glory, honor, pat on the back, plaudits, plum*, prestige, prominence, puff*, regard, renown, PR, illustriousness, laudation, notability, preeminence, pumping up, raves, repute, strokes |
| Antonyms: | blame, criticism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | laurels |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | credit, praise |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, accolade, award, badge, blue ribbon, commendation, crown, decoration, distinction, fame, glory, gold, kudos, prestige, recognition, renown, reward, bays, feather in cap, gold star |
| Antonyms: | criticism |
| Main Entry: | praise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congratulations; adoration |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, acclamation, accolade, applause, appreciation, approbation, approval, boost, celebration, cheer, cheering, citation, commendation, compliment, cry, devotion, encomium, esteem, eulogy, exaltation, flattery, glorification, glory, homage, hurrah, hymn, kudos*, obeisance, ovation, panegyric, pat on the back, plaudit, puff*, rave, recognition, recommendation, regard, thanks, tribute, worship, big hand, bravo, extolment, good word, laudation, sycophancy |
| Antonyms: | blame, censure, condemnation, criticism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness and delight in something |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, bliss, buoyancy, cheer, cloud nine*, communion, contentment, cool*, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, enthusiasm, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, felicity, gaiety, gladness, glory, gratification, heaven, inspiration, joy, jubilation, nirvana, paradise, passion, pleasure, satisfaction, seventh heaven*, spell, transport, well-being, at-oneness, delectation, elysium, good spirits, ravishment, rhapsody |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rejoice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be very happy about something |
| Synonyms: | celebrate, delight, enjoy, exult, glory, joy, revel, triumph, be glad, be overjoyed, feel happy, jump for joy, make merry |
| Antonyms: | be sad |
| Main Entry: | renown |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fame |
| Synonyms: | éclat, acclaim, celebrity, distinction, eminence, glory, honor, kudos, luster, mark, note, notoriety, prestige, prominence, reputation, stardom, illustriousness, preeminence, prominency, rep, repute |
| Antonyms: | obscurity, unimportance, anonymity |
| Main Entry: | stardom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fame |
| Synonyms: | éclat, acclaim, celebrity, distinction, eminence, esteem, glory, greatness, honor, immortality, nobility, notoriety, popularity, prestige, prominence, recognition, renown, standing, illustriousness, preeminence, public esteem |
| Main Entry: | worship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honoring, glorification |
| Synonyms: | adoration, adulation, awe, benediction, chapel, devotion, exaltation, glory, homage, honor, idolatry, invocation, love, offering, praise, prayer, prostration, regard, respect, reverence, rite, ritual, service, supplication, veneration, vespers, beatification, church service, deification, genuflection, idolization, laudation |
| Main Entry: | magnificence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandeur |
| Synonyms: | beauty, distinction, elegance, flourish, glitter, glory, grace, greatness, importance, lavishness, majesty, nobility, ostentation, pomp, post*, pulchritude, radiance, richness, show, splendor, style, brilliance, exaltedness, impressiveness, loftiness, luxuriousness, nobleness, ostentatiousness, resplendency, spectacularity, stateliness, sublimity, sumptuousness, swank* |
| Antonyms: | dullness, modesty, simplicity, ugliness, unostentatiousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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