gorgeous

Adjective

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Adjective (1)

  1. dazzlingly beautiful“a gorgeous Victorian gown”Opposite uglySimilar beautiful
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Gor′geous adjective

Origin: OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. Gorge, noun

Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.

Cloud-land, gorgeous land.— Samuel T. Coleridge
Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.— William Shakespeare

— Gor′wb-a1′>′geous·ly, adverb — Gor′wb-a1′>′geous·ness, noun

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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