magnificent
IPA: mægnˈɪfʌsʌnt
adjective
- Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
- Grand or noble in action.
- Exceptional for its kind.
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Examples of "magnificent" in Sentences
- Few women can lay claim to the word "magnificent", but Currie is now surely one of them.
- "Neville Southall could be described as magnificent if only he hadn't been so scruffy," suggests Ian Copestake.
- Madam Newcott, kneeling in front of Caroline and intent on putting the finishing touches on what she called a magnificent creation, ignored the comment.
- At a memorial service Thursday that drew some 12,000 people to the Penn State basketball arena, Jay Paterno reflected on what he called the "magnificent daylight" of his legendary father's life.
- Curator Joan Murray once called it a "magnificent failure" - the choppy, thickly coloured brush strokes of the water, the flat tree and hills, the clouds billowing against, not with, the wind - but don't discount the word "magnificent."
- England had been, and revered him with such enthusiasm for what she called his magnificent manhood and beneficence, as was ready on the least encouragement to have become something a good deal warmer; but whatever she did served to make her distasteful to him.
- Huc and Gabet's account of Lhassa is, I do not doubt, excellent as to particulars; but the trees which they describe as magnificent, and girdling the city, have uniformly been represented to me as poor stunted willows, apricots, poplars, and walnuts, confined to the gardens of the rich.
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