glorious
Wonderfully beautiful or impressive.
glorious in a sentence
- We woke to a glorious morning: golden sunshine, clear blue sky and birdsong everywhere.
- We reached the top of the hill at sunrise, and the glorious view stretched for miles in golden light.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to glorious?
- Awonderful
- Bdull
- Cdreadful
- Dawful
Show the answer
A: wonderful. The other three mean the opposite of glorious.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to glorious?
- Aawful
- Blovely
- Csplendid
- Dwonderful
Show the answer
A: awful. The other three mean nearly the same as glorious.
Words that mean something similar
wonderful, splendid, lovely
Words that mean the opposite
awful, dreadful, dull
More words about weather & nature
- humid: Warm and damp, with lots of moisture in the air.
- infest: To swarm over a place in large, unwanted numbers.
- lethal: Able to cause death.
- lukewarm: Only slightly warm, or not very enthusiastic.
- lush: Growing thickly, green and healthy.
- mirage: Something you seem to see, often in heat, that is not really there.
- molten: Melted into hot liquid by great heat.
- nocturnal: Awake and active at night instead of during the day.
More words to explore
Sitting the 11+ in Kent, Medway or Buckinghamshire?
Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test