| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | greatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nobleness of character; eminence |
| Synonyms: | celebrity, chivalry, dignity, distinction, fame, generosity, glory, grandeur, heroism, high-mindedness, idealism, illustriousness, importance, loftiness, magnanimity, majesty, merit, morality, nobility, note, prominence, renown, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | nobility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aristocracy; eminence |
| Synonyms: | dignity, elevation, elite, ennoblement, exaltation, excellence, generosity, gentry, glorification, grandeur, greatness, high society, honor, illustriousness, incorruptibility, integrity, loftiness, magnanimity, magnificence, majesty, nobleness, patricians, peerage, royalty, ruling class, society, stateliness, sublimity, superiority, upper class, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | splendor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | radiance, glory |
| Synonyms: | brightness, brilliance, ceremony, dazzle, display, effulgence, gorgeousness, grandeur, luster, magnificence, majesty, pageant, pomp, refulgence, renown, resplendence, richness, show, solemnity, spectacle, stateliness, sumptuousness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, insignificance, ordinariness, poorness |
| Main Entry: | magnificence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandeur |
| Synonyms: | beauty, brilliance, distinction, elegance, exaltedness, flourish, glitter, glory, grace, greatness, importance, impressiveness, lavishness, loftiness, luxuriousness, majesty, nobility, nobleness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomp, post*, pulchritude, radiance, resplendency, richness, show, spectacularity, splendor, stateliness, style, sublimity, sumptuousness, swank |
| Antonyms: | dullness, modesty, simplicity, ugliness, unostentatiousness |
| Main Entry: | majesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grandeur |
| Synonyms: | greatness, illustriousness, nobility, stateliness |
| Main Entry: | elegancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elegance |
| Synonyms: | class, distinction, grace, gracefulness, polish, politeness, refinement, stateliness, style, tastefulness, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | noblesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nobility |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, blue blood, dignity, elevation, elite, ennoblement, exaltation, excellence, generosity, gentry, glorification, grandeur, greatness, high society, honor, illustriousness, incorruptibility, integrity, loftiness, magnanimity, magnificence, majesty, nobleness, patricians, peerage, royalty, ruling class, society, stateliness, sublimity, superiority, upper class, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Concept: | Greatness. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A STANDARD |
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-nouns
greatness; magnitude; size (dimensions); multitude (number); immensity; enormity; infinity; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance., great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap (assemblage); stock (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance (sufficiency)., principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass (whole).
-verbs
be great; run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount., enlarge (increase), (expand) [more].
-adjectives
great; greater; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge (large in size); Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant (enough) full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith., world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many., goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark, staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary; important; unsurpassed (supreme); complete., august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic (repute)., vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous., unlimited (infinite); unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous., undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted.
-adverbs
[in a positive degree] truly (truth) [more]; decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main., [in a complete degree] entirely (completely) [more]; abundantly (sufficiently); widely, far and wide., [in a great or high degree] greatly; much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely., [in a supreme degree] preeminently, superlatively (superiority) [more]., [in a too great degree] immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance., [in a marked degree] particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously., [in an exceptional degree] peculiarly (unconformity) [more]., [in a violent degree] furiously (violence) [more]; severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance., [in a painful degree] painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.
-phrases
a maximis ad minima; "greatness knows itself" [Henry IV]; "mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed" [B. Cornwall]; minimum decet libere cui multum licet [Seneca]; "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
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| Antonyms: | smallness |
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