grandeur

Noun

Meaning

The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

majesty nobility splendor magnificence loftiness nobleness brilliance grandness splendour stateliness magnanimousness sublimity augustness parr ritz
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Antonyms

difficulty burden simplicity degradation distress shame
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Hypernyms

elegance honorableness honourableness

Hyponyms

eclat idealism high-mindedness noble-mindedness sublimity

Related terms

delusion of grandeur folie de grandeur

Phrases with the word

folies de grandeur madness of grandeur

Examples

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. William Ellery Channing

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. Percy Bysshe Shelley

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Close letter words and terms

grandeeism grandeeship Granderson grandevity grandevous grandezza