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glamorous

gla·mor·ous/ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/adjective

glamorous is an adjective meaning “Having glamour; stylish, attractive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S and has 3 syllables (gla·mor·ous), and it appears 3.2 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does glamorous mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having glamour; stylish, attractive.

  2. 2

    Appealing, enticing.

  3. 3

    archaicBeing associated with one or more glamours.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce glamorous?

  • US /ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
  • /ˈɡlɛ.mə.ɹəs/

Glamorous has 3 syllables, split gla·mor·ous in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-glamorous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of glamorous

  • more glamorous comparative
  • most glamorous superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is glamorous?

Glamorous appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,928th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Glamorous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Having glamour; stylish:

LanguageWords
Frenchcharmant, glamour
Germanglamourös, bezaubernd
Portugueseglamouroso, glamuroso
Spanishglamuroso, glamoroso

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does glamorous come from?

From glamor + -ous.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).