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. Franz Kafka:

   Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

2. Thomas Jefferson:

   It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

3. 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.

4. Hindu Spiritual:

   If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds.

5. David Berkowitz Chicago:

   By means of art, man values the value of his worldview and the event. With it, the man moves to the ground and phosphoresces at the darkness of reality, illuminating his dark path with its splendor, like a magical dark-eyed eye, so it moves between the stars and so lives.