Synonyms for grandeur
ˈgræn dʒər, -dʒʊərgrandeur

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1. grandeur

   Synonyms:
   dignity, magnificence, display, pomp, ostentation

   Antonyms:
   meanness, paltriness

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1. magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandnessnoun

   the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

   "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"

   Synonyms:
   wideness, magnanimousness, immensity, richness, splendor, enormousness, sizeableness, luster, blaze, nobleness, magnificence, greatness, brilliancy, grandness, vastness, impressiveness, nobility, genius, splendour, lustre, glare, brilliance, importance, immenseness

2. nobility, nobleness, magnanimousness, grandeurnoun

   the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct

   Synonyms:
   aristocracy, nobility, splendor, nobleness, grandness, magnificence, brilliance, magnanimousness, splendour, noblesse

Matched Categories

1. • Elegance
   • Honorableness

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1. grandeurnoun

   Synonyms:
   greatness, sublimity

2. grandeurnoun

   Synonyms:
   majesty, loftiness, stateliness, state, dignity, pomp, magnificence, augustness, splendor

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1. grandeurnoun

   Synonyms:
   splendor, magnificence, elegance, sublimity, majesty, augustness

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1. List of paraphrases for "grandeur":

   greatness, magnificence, magnitude, splendour, splendor, size, scale

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How to use grandeur in a sentence?

1. Charles Spurgeon:

   Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

2. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   Don't beg anyone for any form of gratification, be it mental, psychological or sexual, for resorting to such practices in itself is an insult to your existence. Celebrate in your own grandeur with dignity!

3. Georges Bataille:

   Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

4. Albert Camus:

   If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

5. Charles Darwin:

   There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.