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Definitions

golden

[gohl-duhn] / ˈgoʊl dən /
ADJECTIVE
beautiful, advantageous
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bright brilliant glorious rich shining
WEAK
auspicious best blissful delightful excellent favorable flourishing happy joyful joyous opportune precious promising propitious prosperous resplendent rosy successful valuable
Antonyms
STRONGEST
dark dull gloomy normal stupid typical unaware unintelligent
WEAK
disadvantaged ugly unsuccessful

Example Sentences

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In the United States, golden statuary is rare and usually metaphoric — the Oregon Pioneer, the Golden Driller, the Spirit of Communication.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

"The golden days of Italian football are well and truly gone."

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Video shows renderings of the building with golden escalators and a golden statue of the president raising his fist in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Inside, the images showed an auditorium dominated by a gigantic golden statue of Trump.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

But who would believe that golden sparks brought the book to him?

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.