Words that rhyme with aureus

adj 1: harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular] 2: eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings" [ant: incurious] 3: having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious"

adj 1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage] 2: marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd" [syn: angered, enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened] 3: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]

adj 1: having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature" [ant: inglorious] 2: characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" [syn: brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid] 3: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous]

adj 1: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful] 2: not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest" [ant: glorious]

adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]

adj 1: deserving reward or praise; "a lifetime of meritorious service"; "meritorious conduct" [syn: meritorious, meritable]

adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed, infamous, notorious]

adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team" [syn: victorious, winning] 2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]

adj 1: of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber" 2: relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica" 3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]

n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius [syn: Aquarius, Water Bearer] 2: a zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Capricornus and Pisces 3: the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about January 20 to February 18 [syn: Aquarius, Aquarius the Water Bearer, Water Bearer]

n 1: Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737) [syn: Stradivari, Antonio Stradivari, Stradivarius, Antonius Stradivarius]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their daughters the Nereids

n 1: Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Guiseppe Guarneri] 2: founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Andrea Guarneri] 3: a violin made by a member of the Guarneri family

n 1: Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians

n 1: son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37) [syn: Tiberius, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus]

n 1: the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major [syn: Sirius, Dog Star, Canicula, Sothis]

n 1: a wind that blows from the north [syn: north wind, northerly, norther, boreas] 2: (Greek mythology) the god who personified the north wind; "Boreas was pictured as bearded and powerful and winged and draped against the cold"

n 1: a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body [syn: sartorius, sartorius muscle, musculus sartorius]

n 1: son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC) [syn: Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes]

n 1: Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century; one of the major heresies concerning the doctrine of the hypostasis of Christ was named after him (died in 451)

n 1: (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus