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glorious
Having or deserving glory; famous.
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  1. Having or deserving glory; famous.
  2. (Informal) Very delightful or enjoyable
  3. Characterized by great beauty and splendor; magnificent:
exciting
Causing excitement or agitation; stirring, thrilling, etc.
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  1. Causing excitement or agitation; stirring, thrilling, etc.
  2. Creating or producing excitement
  3. Creating or producing excitement:
marvelous
Very good; fine; splendid
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  1. Very good; fine; splendid
  2. Causing wonder; surprising, astonishing, or extraordinary
  3. Of the highest or best kind or quality; first-rate:
moving
Changing or capable of changing position:
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  1. Changing or capable of changing position:
  2. Involving a motor vehicle in motion:
  3. (no comparative or superlative) That moves or move.
incredible
Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
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  1. Astonishing, extraordinary, or extreme:
  2. Seeming too unusual or improbable to be possible
  3. (Informal) Wonderful, impressive, extraordinary, etc.
astonishing
Causing astonishment in; causing to be astonished.
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  1. Causing astonishment in; causing to be astonished.
superb
Majestic or magnificent:
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  1. Majestic or magnificent:
  2. Of unusually high quality; excellent:
  3. Extremely fine; excellent
breathtaking
Astonishing; astounding:
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  1. Astonishing; astounding:
  2. Stunningly beautiful; amazing
  3. Very exciting; thrilling
eloquent
Vividly expressive
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  1. Vividly expressive
  2. Having, or characterized by, eloquence; fluent, forceful, and persuasive
  3. Capable of or characterized by eloquence:
surprising
That is or are a surprise.
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  1. That is or are a surprise.
  2. Causing surprise; amazing
spectacular
Of the nature of a spectacle; impressive or sensational.
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  1. Of the nature of a spectacle; impressive or sensational.
  2. Unusual to a striking degree; characterized by a great display, as of daring
  3. Of or like a spectacle, or show
dramatic
(Music) Having a powerful, expressive singing voice:
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  1. (Music) Having a powerful, expressive singing voice:
  2. Arresting or forceful in appearance or effect:
  3. Filled with action, emotion, or exciting qualities; vivid, striking, etc.
stirring
Active; busy
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  1. Active; busy
  2. That stirs one's feelings; rousing
  3. Exciting strong feelings, as of inspiration; rousing.
exaggerated
That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.
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  1. That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.
excessive
Characterized by excess; being too much or too great; immoderate; inordinate
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  1. Characterized by excess; being too much or too great; immoderate; inordinate
  2. Exceeding a normal, usual, reasonable, or proper limit.
lurid
Characterized by shocking or outrageous behavior:
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  1. Characterized by shocking or outrageous behavior:
  2. Characterized by violent passion or crime
  3. Characterized by vivid description or explicit details that are meant to provoke or shock:
emotional
Appealing to or arousing emotion.
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  1. Appealing to or arousing emotion.
  2. Marked by or exhibiting emotion:
  3. Of or relating to emotion:
stimulating
Having a manner that stimulates.
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  1. Having a manner that stimulates.
sensitive
Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
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  1. Fluctuating or tending to fluctuate, especially in price:
  2. Responsive to external conditions or stimulation; having sensation:
  3. Easily irritated:
sensorial
Of or relating to sensations or sensory impressions.
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  1. Of or relating to sensations or sensory impressions.
  2. Of or pertaining to sensation or the senses; sensory
sensory
Of or relating to the senses or sensation.
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  1. Of or relating to the senses or sensation.
  2. Transmitting impulses from sense organs to nerve centers; afferent.
  3. Of the senses or sensation
sensual
Resulting from, or showing preoccupation with, bodily or sexual pleasure
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  1. Resulting from, or showing preoccupation with, bodily or sexual pleasure
  2. Relating to or involving gratification of the senses, especially sexual gratification:
  3. Of the body and the senses as distinguished from the intellect or spirit; bodily
sensuous
Readily susceptible through the senses; enjoying the pleasures of sensation
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  1. Readily susceptible through the senses; enjoying the pleasures of sensation
  2. Sexually attractive.
  3. Relating to or affecting the senses; sensory:
dramatic
(Music) Having a powerful, expressive singing voice:
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  1. (Music) Having a powerful, expressive singing voice:
  2. Characterized by or expressive of the action or emotion associated with drama or the theater:
  3. Arresting or forceful in appearance or effect:
histrionic
Of or relating to actors or acting.
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  1. Of or relating to actors or acting.
  2. Overacted or overacting; theatrical; artificial; affected
  3. Excessively dramatic or emotional; affected.
melodramatic
Characterized by false pathos and sentiment.
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  1. Characterized by false pathos and sentiment.
  2. Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama:
  3. Of, characteristic of, or like melodrama; sensational and extravagantly emotional
spectacular
Of the nature of a spectacle; impressive or sensational.
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  1. Of the nature of a spectacle; impressive or sensational.
  2. Unusual to a striking degree; characterized by a great display, as of daring
  3. Of or like a spectacle, or show
theatrical
Characteristic of the theater; dramatic; esp. (in disparagement), melodramatic, histrionic, showy, or affected
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  1. Characteristic of the theater; dramatic; esp. (in disparagement), melodramatic, histrionic, showy, or affected
  2. Of, relating to, or suitable for dramatic performance or the theater.
  3. Marked by exaggerated self-display and unnatural behavior; affectedly dramatic.
divine
Of or like God or a god
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  1. Of or like God or a god
  2. (Informal) Very pleasing, attractive, etc.
  3. Supremely great, good, etc.
fabulous
Barely credible; astonishing:
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  1. Barely credible; astonishing:
  2. Extremely pleasing or successful:
  3. (Informal) Very good; wonderful
fantastic
Wonderful or superb; remarkable:
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  1. Wonderful or superb; remarkable:
  2. Exceedingly great in size or degree; extravagant:
  3. Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
marvelous
Causing wonder; surprising, astonishing, or extraordinary
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  1. Causing wonder; surprising, astonishing, or extraordinary
  2. Very good; fine; splendid
  3. Of the highest or best kind or quality; first-rate:
splendid
Brilliant with light or color; radiant:
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  1. Brilliant with light or color; radiant:
  2. Imposing by reason of showiness or grandeur; magnificent:
  3. Very good; excellent; fine
superb
Majestic or magnificent:
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  1. Majestic or magnificent:
  2. Of unusually high quality; excellent:
  3. Extremely fine; excellent
terrific
(Informal) Unusually fine, admirable, enjoyable, etc.
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  1. (Informal) Unusually fine, admirable, enjoyable, etc.
  2. Very good or fine; splendid:
  3. Causing terror or great fear; terrifying:
wonderful
That causes wonder; marvelous; amazing
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  1. That causes wonder; marvelous; amazing
  2. Admirable or very good; excellent or splendid:
  3. Very good, excellent, fine, etc.
dandy
(Rare) Of or for a dandy; foppish
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  1. (Rare) Of or for a dandy; foppish
  2. Suggestive of or attired like a dandy; foppish.
  3. Fine; good.
dreamy
Filled with dreams
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  1. Filled with dreams
  2. Like something in a dream; not sharply defined; misty, vague, etc.
  3. (Informal) Inspiring delight; wonderful.
great
Being one generation removed from the relative specified. Often used in combination:
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  1. Being one generation removed from the relative specified. Often used in combination:
  2. (Informal) Very good; first-rate:
  3. Remarkable or outstanding in magnitude, degree, or extent:
ripping
(Chiefly Brit., Slang, former) Excellent; fine; splendid
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  1. (Chiefly Brit., Slang, former) Excellent; fine; splendid
  2. Excellent; marvelous:
  3. (Dated, slang) Excellent.
super
(Informal) Outstanding; exceptionally fine
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  1. (Informal) Outstanding; exceptionally fine
  2. Excellent; first-rate:
  3. Great, extreme, or excessive
swell
Fashionably elegant; stylish.
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  1. Fashionably elegant; stylish.
  2. Excellent; wonderful:
  3. (Slang) First-rate; excellent
tremendous
(Archaic) Capable of making one tremble; terrible.
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  1. (Archaic) Capable of making one tremble; terrible.
  2. Wonderful, amazing, extraordinary, etc.
  3. Very large; great; enormous
cool
(Slang) Entire; full:
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  1. (Slang) Entire; full:
  2. Excellent; first-rate:
  3. (Slang) Very good, pleasing, etc.; excellent
groovy
(Dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. [popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s]
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  1. (Dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. [popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s]
  2. (Slang) Very pleasing or attractive
  3. Very pleasing; wonderful.
hot
Currently very popular or successful:
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  1. Currently very popular or successful:
  2. (Slang) Very good or impressive. Often used in the negative:
  3. (Slang) Performing with great skill and daring:
keen
Having a sharp edge or point; that can cut well
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  1. Having a sharp edge or point; that can cut well
  2. (Slang) Good, fine, etc.
  3. (Slang) Great; splendid; fine:
neat
Without anything superfluous; simple
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  1. Without anything superfluous; simple
  2. Marked by ingenuity and skill; adroit:
  3. Clean and in good order; trim; tidy
nifty
(Informal) Attractive, smart, stylish, enjoyable, etc.
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  1. (Informal) Attractive, smart, stylish, enjoyable, etc.
  2. Good; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial.
  3. First-rate; great:
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  • I make the predictions in this book not to be sensational or controversial.

  • (Official Returns of the Board of Trade.) Her most sensational prophecies had to do with Cardinal Wolsey, the duke of Suffolk, Lord Percy and other men prominent at the court of Henry VIII.

  • He was at home in Voltaire and Rousseau, but had little or no acquaintance with the French sensational philosophy.

  • Of discoveries superficially sensational there are few or none to record, and the weight of his work is for the most part to be appreciated only by professed physicists.

  • In somewhat sensational and affected but prophetic words Gaj compared Illyria to a lyre, " a triangle between Skutari, Varna and Villach.

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