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say it: SPLEN-did
splendid is an adjective meaning "having great beauty and splendor". It is pronounced /ˈsplɛndɪd/ — SPLEN-did. It carries 3 recorded senses.
having great beauty and splendor
“a glorious spring morning”
“a glorious sunset”
“splendid costumes”
“a kind of splendiferous native simplicity”
very good; of the highest quality
“made an excellent speech”
“he was a splendid teacher”
“a first-class mind”
colloquialism · United Kingdom
characterized by grandeur
“the brilliant court life at Versailles”
“a glorious work of art”
“magnificent cathedrals”
“the splendid coronation ceremony”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for splendid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.