magnificent
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Magnificent \Mag*nif"i*cent\, a. [See Magnificence.]
1.Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence. [1913 Webster]
A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many.— Massinger.[1913 Webster]
2.Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid; pompous. [1913 Webster]
When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
Syn: Glorious; majestic; sublime. See Grand. [1913 Webster]
The Devil's Dictionary
MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot.