gloriously
/ɡlˈɔɹiəsli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow."
- "'With love shall life roll gloriously on from year to year, like the voice of some great music that hath power to hold the hearer's heart poised on eagles' wings above the sordid shame and folly of the earth.'"
- "That year when he came to Korea, he was already thirty-one years old. Once while carrying out an emergency repair of a bridge, he volunteered to climb barehanded up a seventeen meter high isolated steel beam. He did so and brought down some materials. In addition, he paid no heed to danger during the flooding and set up floating bridges three times, victoriously completing his mission. To everyone's sorrow, on May 15th, 1952, our hero, while repairing the Qingchuan River Bridge, was gloriously martyred. His company was named the "Yang Liandi Company"."
- "The elimination of [Roger] Federer after [Rafael] Nadal's loss to Lukas Rosol would have created mild panic among the fans of these gloriously gifted but now clearly vulnerable geniuses."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.
Inflected Forms
more gloriously (comparative)
most gloriously (superlative)