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/splɛndˈɪfəɹəs/
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ADJECTIVE
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having great beauty and splendor
splendid costumes
a kind of splendiferous native simplicity
a glorious spring morning
a glorious sunset
How To Use splendiferous In A Sentence
- This vintage expression, which gives the movie its title, is uttered by Ince when he contemplates the revels Hearst has planned for the producer's birthday celebrations aboard the mogul's splendiferous yacht, the Oneida.
- Dozens of copies of the paper were sent via TNT, the courier, to arrive in time for a splendiferous dinner and prize-giving.
- Works a treat - I've showerproofed my Snugpak Sleeka with it (not generally regarded as an external layer) but it works splendiferously!
- Romantic or touching moments are cued with swelling music, unbelievably swelling music that bulges and finally erupts from your speakers to reach a peak of splendiferousness.
- And eventually to have his own fine tomb over there, where his own splendiferous mummy would be put to rest. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
- But that's the price of a flat in Manchester or a splendiferous car!
- Little did I know that "splendiferous" means "tastes like the sweat off a dog's nuts. GamePolitics News
- The original production, directed as an exercise in splendiferous irony by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, was by my lights the finest musical of its decade.
- Not only was the night cold though, it was also stomach churningly smelly - the nippiness was later accompanied by the splendiferous aroma of steaming bacon ribs.
- We should have been very sorry if such a "splendiferous" phenomenon had been obscured by envious boa or pelisse, or lost to the proprieties of costume. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844