golden

[gohl-duhn] / ˈgoʊl dən /

ADJECTIVE

beautiful, advantageous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bright brilliant glorious rich shining

WEAK

auspicious best blissful delightful excellent favorable flourishing happy joyful joyous opportune precious promising propitious prosperous resplendent rosy successful valuable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dark dull gloomy normal stupid typical unaware unintelligent

WEAK

disadvantaged ugly unsuccessful

Example Sentences

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The crown is missing one of eight golden eagles that adorned it but retains its 56 emeralds and all but 10 of its 1,354 diamonds.

From BBC

Her eyes were golden brown with little flecks of green and yellow in them.

From Literature

The corn was tall and golden, and for once even poor folks like us felt like they might have cash in their pockets come fall.

From Literature

With the golden crane nearby she felt safe and lucky.

From Literature

When he entered the house, he was nearly overwhelmed by Grief—which was what his family called their golden retriever.

From Literature