Definition of "splendiferous" []

• Splendid: "The working genius of American design has been . . . a refining of utilitarian purity into a kind of splendiferous native simplicity” ( Jay Cocks). (adjective)

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• "Perlman, the "splendiferous" author of the current spotlighted review, wasted no time savaging my contribution."
• "We should have been very sorry if such a "splendiferous" phenomenon had been obscured by envious boa or pelisse, or lost to the proprieties of costume."
• "Scroggles looked round at his comrades, as if to appeal to their judgment as to the fitness of the word, but not receiving any encouragement, he thrust down the glowing tobacco in his pipe with the end of his little finger, and reiterated the word "splendiferous" with marked emphasis."