glamorous
/ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
- British English: /ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more glamorous (comparative)
most glamorous (superlative)