glamorous
Syllables: gla·mor·ous/ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
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New Zealand/ˈɡlɛ.mə.ɹəs/
glamorous adjective: having glamour; stylish, attractive.
Adjective
glamorous (comparative more glamorous, superlative most glamorous)
- Having glamour; stylish, attractive.
- I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian
- Appealing, enticing.
- Thus it was not only in the doctrinal field that revisionism called into question the traditional belief in the revolutionary mission of the proletariat: the belief was challenged, perhaps more effectively still, by the success of revisionism as a social phenomenon, which robbed socialism of the...1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
- Being associated with one or more glamours.
glamorous meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog
glamorous in Tamil
- கவர்ச்சியான, வசீகரமான
glamorous in Malayalam
- മോഹിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, വിലോഭകമായ, മയക്കുന്ന, പകിട്ടേറിയ
glamorous in Tagalog
- Having glamour; stylish
- kaakit-akit, kahali-halina, mapanggayuma, mapanghalina, mapanlayumot
Examples of glamorous in a sentence
- Being a dentist isn't so glamorous, but it pays the bills.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
- Those old machines are not very glamorous, but even 20 years after their introduction, they are still the workhorses of the industry.
Forms of glamorous
| comparative | more glamorous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most glamorous |
Origin of glamorous
From glamor + -ous.
Words formed from glamorous
Questions about glamorous
- What does glamorous mean?
- Glamorous means having glamour; stylish, attractive.
- What is glamorous in Tamil?
- Glamorous in Tamil is கவர்ச்சியான, வசீகரமான. See Glamorous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is glamorous?
- Glamorous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce glamorous?
- Glamorous is pronounced /ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/ (UK).
Words near glamorous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: glamorous (page history and authors); glamorous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glamorous (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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