glamorous
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- Australia//ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs//
- New Zealand//ˈɡlɛ.mə.ɹəs//
Having glamour; stylish, attractive.
adjective
- 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.
- 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 glamorous prospect of a 'final battle' for universal liberation.
- 3
archaicBeing associated with one or more glamours.
Etymology
Etymology tree English glamor Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English glamorous From glamor + -ous.
Forms
- comparative
- more glamorous
- superlative
- most glamorous