Meanings
comparative more panegyrical · superlative most panegyrical
- Lavish with praise; admiring, approving, complimentary.
The days of description (personal and panegyrical) are passing rapidly away.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 1672 more examples
Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.
a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 302Birmingham, indeed, has recently been styled "the best governed city in the world"--a title that is, perhaps, a trifle too full and panegyrical to find ready and general acceptance.
1900, Thomas Anderton, A Tale of One City: The New Birmingham
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveformally expressing praise
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian хвалебствян
- хвалебствян (hvalebstvjan)lavish with praise
Danish panegyrisk
- panegyrisklavish with praise
Finnish ylistävä
- ylistävälavish with praise
German panegyrisch
- panegyrischlavish with praise
Norwegian panegyrisk
- panegyrisklavish with praise
Portuguese panegírico
- panegíricolavish with praise
Spanish panegírico
- panegíricolavish with praise
Swedish panegyrisk
- panegyrisklavish with praise
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panegyrical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/panegyrical
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