Words that rhyme with vainglorious

• burglarious 0
  adj 1: involving or resembling burglary; "burglarious tools"
• calcareous 0
  adj 1: composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk [syn: calcareous, chalky]
• censorious 0
  adj 1: harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"
• curious 0
  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"
• deleterious 0
  adj 1: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful, injurious]
• delirious 0
  adj 1: experiencing delirium [syn: delirious, hallucinating] 2: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained]
• furious 0
  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]
• glorious 0
  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]
• gregarious 0
  adj 1: (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species; "gregarious bird species" [ant: ungregarious] 2: instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others; "he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude" 3: (of plants) growing in groups that are close together [ant: ungregarious]
• hilarious 0
  adj 1: marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: hilarious, screaming(a), uproarious]
• illustrious 0
  adj 1: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned] 2: having or conferring glory; "an illustrious achievement"
• imperious 0
  adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
• incurious 0
  adj 1: showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; "strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them" [ant: curious]
• industrious 0
  adj 1: characterized by hard work and perseverance [syn: hardworking, industrious, tireless, untiring] 2: working hard to promote an enterprise [syn: energetic, gumptious, industrious, up-and-coming]
• inglorious 0
  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]
• insalubrious 0
  adj 1: detrimental to health [syn: insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy]
• laborious 0
  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]
• lugubrious 0
  adj 1: excessively mournful
• meritorious 0
  adj 1: deserving reward or praise; "a lifetime of meritorious service"; "meritorious conduct" [syn: meritorious, meritable]
• multifarious 0
  adj 1: having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious noise of a great city"; "a miscellaneous crowd" [syn: many-sided, multifaceted, miscellaneous, multifarious]
• mysterious 0
  adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying] 2: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]
• nacreous 0
  adj 1: consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl 2: having a play of lustrous rainbow colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster" [syn: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent]
• nefarious 0
  adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous]
• notorious 0
  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]
• opprobrious 0
  adj 1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous] 2: (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]
• pancreas 0
  n 1: a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin
• penurious 0
  adj 1: not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched] 2: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner --denying himself every indulgence" [syn: parsimonious, penurious]
• precarious 0
  adj 1: affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce" [syn: precarious, unstable] 2: fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery" [syn: parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go] 3: not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage" [syn: precarious, shaky]
• salubrious 0
  adj 1: promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you" [syn: healthy, salubrious, good for you(p)] 2: favorable to health of mind or body; "not the most salubrious campsite"; "one of the less salubrious suburbs"
• serious 0
  adj 1: concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!" [ant: frivolous] 2: of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter" 3: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening] 4: appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book" [syn: good, serious] 5: completely lacking in playfulness [syn: unplayful, serious, sober] [ant: playful] 6: requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"
• spurious 0
  adj 1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" [syn: specious, spurious] 2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious] 3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious]
• temerarious 0
  adj 1: presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff" [syn: daredevil, temerarious]
• uproarious 0
  adj 1: uncontrollably noisy [syn: rackety, rip-roaring, uproarious] 2: marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories" [syn: hilarious, screaming(a), uproarious]
• usurious 0
  adj 1: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious]
• uxorious 0
  adj 1: foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
• various 0
  adj 1: of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior" [syn: assorted, various] 2: considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)] 3: distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth" [syn: diverse, various] 4: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn: versatile, various]
• vicarious 0
  adj 1: experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement" 2: occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation" 3: suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement"
• victorious 0
  adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team" [syn: victorious, winning] 2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]
• vitreous 0
  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]
• aquarius 0
  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]
• stradivarius 0
  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]
• nereus 0
  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
• guarnerius 0
  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
• belisarius 0
  n 1: Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians
• omnifarious 0
  adj 1: of all varieties or forms or kinds; "omnifarious reading"
• sagittarius 0
  n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius [syn: Sagittarius, Archer] 2: a large zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Scorpius and Capricornus 3: the ninth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about November 22 to December 21 [syn: Sagittarius, Sagittarius the Archer, Archer] 4: type genus of the Sagittariidae [syn: Sagittarius, genus Sagittarius]
• tiberius 0
  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]
• sirius 0
  n 1: the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major [syn: Sirius, Dog Star, Canicula, Sothis]
• sartorius 0
  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]
• demetrius 0
  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]
• arboreous 0
  adj 1: inhabiting or frequenting trees; "arboreal apes" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, tree-living] [ant: nonarboreal] 2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody] 3: resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped]
• nestorius 0
  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)
• atreus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus
• cinereous 0
• cupreous 0
• vagarious 0
• darius 0
• scarious 0
• marius 0
• malarious 0
• denarius 0
• senarius 0
• octonarius 0
• retiarius 0
• septenarius 0
• subereous 0
• tiberias 0
• subdelirious 0
• sulphureous 0

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