glorious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡlɔː.ɹi.əs/    美 /ˈɡlɔɹ.i.əs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory.
    — glorious deeds
  2. Excellent, wonderful; delightful.
    — These are thy glorious works, Parent of good.
  3. Bright or shining;
    — And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage / Until the golden circuit on my head, / Like to the glorious sun’s transparent beams, / Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
  4. Eager for glory or distinction obsolete
    — [...] but most miserable / Is the desire that’s glorious: blest be those, / How mean soe’er, that have their honest wills, / Which seasons comfort. […]
  5. Excessively proud or boastful. obsolete
    — Make heauen to frowne and euery fixed ſtarre To ſucke vp poiſon from the Mooriſh Fens, And poure it in this glorious Tyrants throat.
  6. Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink. archaic,colloquial
    — During his Office, Treaſon vvas no Crime. / The Sons of Belial had a Glorious Time: / For Shimei, though not prodigal of pelf, / Yet lov'd his vvicked Neighbour as himſelf.

词形变化

more glorious comparative gloriouser comparative most glorious superlative gloriousest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
gloriously gloriousness Glorious Twelfth inglorious overglorious self-glorious superglorious unglorious
相关词
glorify glory

词源

From Middle English glorious, from Anglo-Norman glorius and Old French glorïos, from Latin glōriōsus. Displaced native Middle English wulderful, from Old English wuldorfull (“glorious”), among other terms. Equivalent to glory + -ous.
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