Word Meanings - ILLUSTRIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened

Additional info about word: ILLUSTRIOUS

1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere. Drayton. 3. Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles. Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; remarkable; brilliant; conspicuous; noted; celebrated; signal; renowened; eminent; exalted; noble; glorious. See Distinguished, Famous.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ILLUSTRIOUS)

• Celebrated
• Famed
• renowned
• illustrious
• eminent
• glorious
• famous
• noted
• distinguished
• notable
• exalted
• Distinguished
• Illustrious
• celebrated
• conspicuous
• marked
• Famous
• Renowned
• far-famed
• Memorable
• Great
• striking
• remarkable
• prominent
• noticeable
• extraordinary
• Noble
• Grand
• aristocratic
• generous
• worthy
• magnanimous
• dignified
• excellent
• lofty-minded
• honorable
• fine

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  In a familiar manner.
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• NOTUM
  The back.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• FAMOSITY
  The state or quality of being famous. Johnson.
• FAMILIST
  One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• FAMELESS
  Without fame or renown. -- Fame"less*ly, adv.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• NOTELET
  A little or short note; a billet.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
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  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• HYPNOTIC
  1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• SEAMARK
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• CONTRADISTINGUISH
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• PHONOTYPY
  A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• DEFAMER
  One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
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  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
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  A single unvaried tone or sound.
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• KNOTWEED
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