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View synonyms for glamorous

glamorous

or glam·our·ous

[ glam-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.

    Synonyms: bewitching, alluring, fascinating, beguiling

  2. full of excitement, adventure, and unusual activity:

    the glamorous job of a foreign correspondent.



glamorous

/ ˈɡlæmərəs /

adjective

  1. possessing glamour; alluring and fascinating

    a glamorous career

  2. beautiful and smart, esp in a showy way

    a glamorous woman

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈglamorousness, noun
  • ˈglamorously, adverb
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Other Words From

  • glamor·ous·ly glamour·ous·ly adverb
  • glamor·ous·ness glamour·ous·ness noun
  • ultra·glamor·ous adjective
  • un·glamor·ous adjective
  • un·glamor·ous·ly adverb
  • un·glamor·ous·ness noun
  • un·glamour·ous adjective
  • un·glamour·ous·ly adverb
  • un·glamour·ous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of glamorous1

First recorded in 1935–40; glamor ( def ) + -ous
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Example Sentences

The worst-performing sectors of the S&P 500 have been energy, financial, and industrial, but glamorous companies can also be strong candidates for fraud if managers fear next quarter’s financial results won’t support the high-flying stock.

From Fortune

You could, if you felt like making a glamorous dessert, use it in this Caramelized Blood Orange Tipsy Trifle.

It’s glamorous, prestigious and packed shoulder-to-shoulder.

While we cannot gather in person this year, I wish you all a really fabulous Halloween and a glamorous rest of the year.

Young, glamorous candidates have typically fared better in general elections, but the votes don’t always break down according to age.

From Vox

They either have a tendency to hyperbolize and make life much more glamorous and titillating than it is, or the other way.

It was once the most glamorous hotel in town, but in 1964, hundreds of European hostages were held captive in its rooms.

Celebrities flocked to this glamorous and buzzy temple of literature and culture.

“Not glamorous, but neither is Canadian media,” Steven Kerzner wrote in an email.

He put them in glamorous gowns, yes, but also encouraged them to buy trendier ready-to-wear labels off the rack.

A disgusting snip of a person had moved between him and those bitter but glamorous memories of Maria Algarez.

To Tiflin, as to the others, even such places were glamorous.

It was part of the reeling, glamorous intoxication into which she cast him, to hear himself going on like a stump-speaker.

We have all heard, of course, of sport for sport's sake but Georges Carpentier established a still more glamorous ideal.

The delicate, sinuous melodic line, the glamorous sheeny harmonies, are gone out of it.

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