The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gorgeous \Gor"geous\, a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain,
   luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F.
   gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. Gorge,
   n.]
   Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine;
   magnificent.
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         Cloud-land, gorgeous land.               --Coleridge.
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         Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.        --Shak.
   -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gorgeous
    adj 1: dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

88 Moby Thesaurus words for "gorgeous":
   beaming, beautiful, blatant, blooming, brazen, brazenfaced,
   breathtaking, bright, bright-hued, brilliant, burning, colorful,
   colory, crude, dazzling, deep-colored, devastating, divine,
   elephant, excellent, exotic, exquisite, extravagant, fantastic,
   flagrant, flamboyant, flaring, flaunting, garish, gaudy, gay,
   gay-colored, glamorous, glaring, glorious, glowing, grand, great,
   heavenly, high-colored, impressive, intense, killing, lavish, loud,
   lurid, luxurious, magnificent, marvy, meretricious, neat, nifty,
   obtrusive, opulent, ostentatious, plush, pretentious, proud,
   radiant, raving, ravishing, refulgent, resplendent, rich,
   rich-colored, screaming, sensational, shameless, shining, showy,
   smashing, sparkling, spectacular, splendid, splendiferous,
   splendorous, splendrous, stunning, sublime, sumptuous, super,
   superb, swell, tawdry, terrific, vivid, vulgar, wonderful