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Definitions

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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Add onion to the skillet and cook until fully softened and lightly golden, 4–5 minutes.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Video shows renderings of the building with golden escalators and a golden statue of the president raising his fist in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Inside, the images showed an auditorium dominated by a gigantic golden statue of Trump.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

It's an expensive golden bullet to bring down a relatively cheap fibreglass drone.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Her hair had gotten thicker and turned more of a golden color, and she spent a lot of time in her room with the door shut, straightening her hair or curling it or something.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix