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glamourous

glamourous is the uncommon form of glamorous.

Meaning of glamorous

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.

Forms of glamourous

comparativemore glamourous
superlativemost glamourous

Words formed from glamourous

Questions about glamourous

What is glamourous the uncommon form of?
Glamourous is the uncommon form of glamorous.

Words near glamourous in the dictionary

  1. glamourizer
  2. glamourizes
  3. glamourizing
  4. glamourless
  5. glamourlessness
  6. glamourous
  7. glamourousness
  8. glamourpuss
  9. glamourpusses
  10. glamours
  11. glamoursome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glamourous (page history and authors); glamorous (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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