1 : dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"
2 : of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor"
3 : of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings"
4 : impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
5 : having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
6 : artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
