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Magnificent vs Sadness - What's the difference?

magnificent | sadness |

As an adjective magnificent

is grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.

As a noun sadness is

(uncountable) the state or emotion of being sad.

magnificent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , chapter=1, title= The Case of Miss Elliott , passage= “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.}}
  • Grand or noble in action.
  • Exceptional for its kind.
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=Substitute Edin Dzeko scrambled in a fourth and the magnificent David Silva ran clear to add another, before the Bosnian striker inflicted the final wound seconds from the end.}}

    sadness

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
  • (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
  • She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

    Synonyms

    * (state of being sad) forlornness, melancholy * (event causing sadness) misfortune, woe