Glorious and Lowly

Glorious

Glorious adjective - Large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception.
Usage example: the advent of the printing press in the West ushered in a glorious new era of learning

Lowly is an antonym for glorious in adored topic.

Nearby Words: glory, gloriously, gloria, gloried

Lowly

Lowly adjective - Belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank.

Glorious is an antonym for lowly.

Nearby Word: lowliness

Both words in one sentence

  • Stephen Black the lowly servant with a glorious destiny from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, or Steven Black, the one-shot Wayne Brady character on 30 Rock.
  • He leaves his glorious position in Heaven to take on the body of a lowly human with extremely humble beginnings, being "born" in a stable.
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