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golden - 14 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | golden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, advantageous |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, best, blissful, bright, brilliant, delightful, excellent, favorable, flourishing, glorious, happy, joyful, joyous, opportune, precious, promising, propitious, prosperous, resplendent, rich, rosy, shining, successful, valuable |
| Antonyms: | disadvantaged, ugly, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | gold/golden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark yellow |
| Synonyms: | aureate, blond, blonde, dusty, honeyed, straw, tan, tawny, wheat, auric, auriferous, aurous, aurulent, caramel, flaxen, mellow yellow, ochroid |
| Main Entry: | amber |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | gold-colored |
| Synonyms: | brown, golden, tan, yellowish |
| Main Entry: | auspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encouraging; favorable |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, bright, favorable, felicitous, fortunate, golden, halcyon, happy, hopeful, lucky, opportune, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, timely, well-timed |
| Notes: | auspicious implies success in the future while propitious means favorable conditions are present; auspicious means promising or of good omen - not just special or memorable |
| Antonyms: | inauspicious, inopportune, ominous, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, lucky, on a roll*, opportune, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do, born with a silver spoon, gaining, get a break, in luck, in the gravy, overcoming, providential, sunny side |
| Antonyms: | adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | halcyon |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | calm, peaceful |
| Synonyms: | balmy, bucolic, gentle, golden, happy, harmonious, pastoral, quiet, serene, soothing, still, sunny, tranquil, untroubled, at peace, palmy |
| Main Entry: | lucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fortunate, opportune |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, adventitious, auspicious, beneficial, benign, blessed, charmed, favored, felicitous, fortuitous, golden, happy, hopeful, hot*, on a roll*, promising, propitious, prosperous, successful, timely, well, all systems go, coming up roses, everything going, getting a break, hit it big, holding aces, in the groove, into something, on a streak, providential, serendipitous, striking it rich |
| Antonyms: | bad, inopportune, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, unsuccessful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meritorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honorable, commendable |
| Synonyms: | admirable, boss*, choice, creditable, deserving, estimable, excellent, exemplary, golden, good, laudable, noble, praiseworthy, right, righteous, virtuous, winner, worthy, meritable, praisable, thankworthy, top drawer, world-beating |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, dishonorable, immoral, improper, unworthy, wrong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gilt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gilded |
| Synonyms: | gaudy, glittering, golden, lustrous, meretricious, painted, shiny, showy, sparkling, specious, alloyed, gleaming, overlaid, plated, tinsel, tinseled, varnished |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, alight, argent, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, incandescent, intense, lambent, light, limpid, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, sparkling, sunny, twinkling, vivid, aglow, auroral, burnished, coruscating, flashing, fulgid, gleaming, glistening, illumined, irradiated, lighted, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, relucent, silvery, sunlit |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
| Main Entry: | metallic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | made of metal |
| Synonyms: | golden, hard, iron, leaden, fusible, geologic, metallurgic, mineral, ory, rocklike, silvery, stannic, tinny |
| Main Entry: | best |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | correct, right |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, apt, desirable, golden, preferred, presentable, most desirable, most fitting |
| Antonyms: | incorrect, not right |
| Main Entry: | hopeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising, auspicious |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, bright, cheerful, cheering, conducive, convenient, encouraging, exciting, expeditious, fair, favorable, fine, fit, flattering, fortunate, golden, good, gracious, halcyon, helpful, inspiring, likely, lucky, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, probable, propitious, reasonable, roseate, rosy*, rousing, stirring, suitable, sunny, timely, uplifting, well-timed, arousing, elating, enlivening, fortifying, heartening, inspiriting, promiseful, providential, reassuring |
| Antonyms: | desperate, hopeless, inauspicious, pointless, wretched, unpromising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeful, promising |
| Synonyms: | airy, auspicious, benign, breezy, cheering, encouraging, excellent, favorable, golden, good, optimistic, propitious, prosperous, rosy, palmy |
| Antonyms: | depressing, horrible, threatening, unpromising |
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