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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)

  1. 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
  2. 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...
  3. (archaic) 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.

All 36 example sentences with glamorous

Forms of glamorous

comparativemore glamorous
superlativemost 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

  1. glamorizer
  2. glamorizers
  3. glamorizes
  4. glamorizing
  5. glamorless
  6. glamorous
  7. glamorously
  8. glamorousness
  9. glamors
  10. glamorwear
  11. glamour

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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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