splendidiferous

English

Etymology

splendid +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous

Adjective

splendidiferous (comparative more splendidiferous, superlative most splendidiferous)

1. (rare, humorous) Synonym of splendidious.
   • 1845, East India Company, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, The California University Press, page 235

     Verily, the classical scholar must admit that there is nothing for beauty to be compared with the above in his favourite authors, and that the learned Orientalist and editor of the Persian Moonskee has selected a most splendidiferous specimen of Persian poetry.

   • 1922, Evan Richard Calthrop, The Horse, as Comrade and Friend - Edition 3, Hutchinson & Co. - Paternoster Row - London, page 106

     The disciple made a most splendidiferous shy right across the road, and, if you had not been something of a horseman, you would have been off that trip. It would have taken more than a lion to have got the disciple that time.

   • 1985, Philip George Hill, Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age, The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 409

     [...] splendidiferous [...]

   • 2003, Andrew Birkin & Sharon Goode, J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, The Yale University Press - New Haven & London, page 253

     It is great and good and splendidiferous your liking Eton from the start.

   • 1877, William Henry Giles Kingston, Yatching Tales, The Oxford University Press, page 39

     Now he is in parliament, he will boil over; when he gets a wife what a splendidiferous creature she must be!

   • 1927, Harold Begbie, Julius Levine: A Novel, Mills & Boon - The Oxford University Press, page 103

     It's most awfully good of you to give me such a splendidiferous present.

   • 2002, A & W. Selkirk, Current Archaeology, Issues 181-192, The Northwestern University Press, page 420

     Great opportunities lie ahead: we look forward to visiting a splendidiferous Mont Orgueil in twenty years time.

   • 1987, Napfield Limited, Blues & Soul, Issues 486-498, The Virginia University Press, page 33

     A splendidiferous two-roomed tent was the surrounds, with the Thames glinting quietly just a few yards away.