Meanings
comparative more glamorous · superlative most glamorous
- Having glamour; stylish, attractive.
I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.
2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian - Appealing, enticing.
1 more example
Thus it was not only in the doctrinal field that revisionism called into question the traditional belief in the revolutionary mission of the proletariat: the belief was challenged, perhaps more effectively still, by the success of revisionism as a social phenomenon, which robbed socialism of the glamorous prospect of a 'final battle' for universal liberation.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114 - archaicBeing associated with one or more glamours.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving an air of allure, romance and excitement
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishglamor
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Englishglamorous
Translations
Bulgarian очарователен, възхитителен
- очарователен (očarovatelen)Having glamour; stylish
- възхитителен (văzhititelen)Having glamour; stylish
Catalan glamurós
- glamurósHaving glamour; stylish
Chinese Mandarin 魅力十足的
- 魅力十足的 (mèilì shízú de)Having glamour; stylish
Dutch glamoureus, glamourachtig
- glamoureusHaving glamour; stylish
- glamourachtigHaving glamour; stylish
Finnish hohdokas, tyylikäs
- hohdokasHaving glamour; stylish
- tyylikäsHaving glamour; stylish
- loistokasHaving glamour; stylish
French charmant, glamour
- charmantHaving glamour; stylish
- glamourHaving glamour; stylish
German glamourös, bezaubernd
- glamourösHaving glamour; stylish
- bezauberndHaving glamour; stylish
Norwegian Bokmål glamorøs
- glamorøsHaving glamour; stylish
Polish elegancki
- eleganckiHaving glamour; stylish
Portuguese glamouroso, glamuroso
- glamourosoHaving glamour; stylish
- glamurosoHaving glamour; stylish
Romanian fermecător
- fermecătorHaving glamour; stylish
Russian обая́тельный, очарова́тельный
- обая́тельный (obajátelʹnyj)Having glamour; stylish
- очарова́тельный (očarovátelʹnyj)Having glamour; stylish
- чару́ющий (čarújuščij)Having glamour; stylish
Spanish glamuroso, glamoroso
- glamurosoHaving glamour; stylish
- glamorosoHaving glamour; stylish
Swedish glamorös
- glamorösHaving glamour; stylish
Tagalog kaakit-akit, kahali-halina
- kaakit-akitHaving glamour; stylish
- kahali-halinaHaving glamour; stylish
- mapanggayumaHaving glamour; stylish
- mapanghalinaHaving glamour; stylish
- mapanlayumotHaving glamour; stylish
Cite this entry
glamorous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glamorous
“glamorous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glamorous. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glamorous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glamorous.
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