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magnificent
Meaning: extremely impressive or beautiful
magnificent in a sentence
How magnificent is used in real sentences:
The travelers stood speechless before the magnificent waterfall cascading down the cliffside.
Even the photographs failed to capture how magnificent the northern lights appeared, rippling green and purple across the entire night sky.
“They climbed through the night under a magnificent field of stars.”
— from the passage The Ridge Vote
Synonyms for magnificent
Other words for magnificent — splendid, majestic and gorgeous — carry the same meaning.
- splendid
- majestic
- gorgeous
Antonyms of magnificent
Words that mean the opposite of magnificent:
Where it comes from
From Latin magnificus 'making great'
Word parts
- mag/magna — great, large, important
magnificent: magn (great) + fic (make) + -ent
Memory hook
MAGNI (great) — like MAGNIFY, something magnificent is great in size or beauty.
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