Glorious and Mean

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

Mean is an antonym for glorious.

Nearby Words: glory, gloriously, gloria, gloried

Mean

Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.

Glorious is an antonym for mean.

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Man of Steel Her "A glorious death is its own reward" line can be interpreted to mean that she is going to give him this reward.
  • Cat Concerto Blue Eyes celebrates his glorious victory over a mean, evil tom-cat called Yellow by singing a quiet a song when he saved little Kiki from him.
    Source: Cat Concerto
  • Offered the Crown By which we mean, the Glorious Revolution, i.e.
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