Definition of Splendid

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Splendid

Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.

Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.

Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.

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Splendid Quotations

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
Noel Coward

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
Freddie Mercury

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Freddie Mercury

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
Stephen Fry

Splendid Translations

splendid in Latin is palmarium

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