Synonyms for splendor
splen·dor

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1. luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendournoun

   a quality that outshines the usual

   Synonyms:
   sheen, shininess, brilliancy, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, brilliance, luster, splendour, lustre

2. 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, enormousness, sizeableness, luster, blaze, nobleness, magnificence, greatness, brilliancy, grandness, vastness, impressiveness, nobility, genius, splendour, lustre, grandeur, glare, brilliance, importance, immenseness

Matched Categories

1. • Brightness
   • Elegance

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1. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   lustre, brilliance, brilliancy, brightness, polish

2. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   magnificence, pomp, stateliness, show, gorgeousness, pompousness, display, parade, ÉCLAT, striking effect

3. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   eminence, celebrity, fame, glory

4. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   grandeur, sublimity

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1. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   brilliancy, brightness, magnificence, pageantry, pomp, grandeur, renown, glory, eminence, sublimity, fame

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1. List of paraphrases for "splendor":

   splendour, luster, glory, grandeur, magnificence, glamour

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How to use splendor in a sentence?

1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit.

2. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita",Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945:

   If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

3. Clement of Rome:

   How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness And all these things are within our comprehension.

4. Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold":

   No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

5. James Grover Thurber:

   But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.