Glorious and Ordinary

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

Ordinary is an antonym for glorious in topics: illustrious, adored.

Nearby Words: glory, gloriously, gloria, gloried

Ordinary

Ordinary adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

Glorious is an antonym for ordinary.

Both words in one sentence

  • Born in the Wrong Century They imagined themselves as glorious despots to whom the ordinary people still looked up to.
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