splendid
Extremely good or beautiful to look at.
splendid in a sentence
- The palace ballroom was splendid, with golden mirrors and a thousand candles.
- The peacock spread its splendid tail, and the shining colours made everyone stop and stare.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to splendid?
- Aplain
- Bwonderful
- Cdreadful
- Dawful
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B: wonderful. The other three mean the opposite of splendid.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to splendid?
- Abrilliant
- Bgrand
- Cwonderful
- Dawful
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D: awful. The other three mean nearly the same as splendid.
Words that mean something similar
wonderful, grand, brilliant
Words that mean the opposite
awful, dreadful, plain
More words about appearance & looks
- stately: Grand, dignified and impressive.
- stout: Rather fat and solid, or strong and thick.
- sturdy: Strong and solidly built, not easily broken.
- superb: Extremely good; among the very best.
- tarnish: To make something less shiny or spoil how good it seems.
- tattered: Torn, ragged and falling apart.
- taut: Stretched tight with no slack.
- threadbare: So worn out that the material is thin and nearly see-through.
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