Antonyms for grandest

Grammar : Adj

Spell : grand

Phonetic Transcription : grænd

Definition of grandest

Origin : late 14c., grant "large, big" (early 12c. in surnames), from Anglo-French graunt and directly from Old French grant, grand (10c.) "large, tall; grown-up; great, powerful, important; strict, severe; extensive; numerous," from Latin grandis "big, great; full, abundant," also "full-grown;" figuratively "strong, powerful, weighty, severe" (perhaps cognate with Greek brenthyomai "to swagger, be haughty"). It supplanted magnus in Romanic languages; in English with a special sense of "imposing." The connotations of "noble, sublime, lofty, dignified," etc., were in Latin. As a general term of admiration, "magnificent, splendid," from 1816. Related: Grander; grandest.
The use of grand- in compounds, with the sense of "a generation older than, or younger than," is first attested c.1200, in Anglo-French graund dame "grandmother." Latin and Greek had similar usages.
Grand jury is late 15c. Grand piano from 1797. The grand tour of the principal sites of continental Europe, as part of a gentleman's education, is attested by that name from 1660s. The Grand Canyon was so called 1871 by Maj. John Wesley Powell, scientific adventurer, who explored it; earlier it had been known as Big Canyon.

adj impressive, great
adj most important

Example sentences :

This is the grandest stroke of religious circumvention that ever was struck.
Extract from : « The Fall of British Tyranny » by John Leacock

Hence in his case also his achievements are on the grandest scale but of the worst.
Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon

Oh, it was much nicer than the grandest gift the stores could offer.
Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott

Each of these is up to the shoulders in the grandest game you ever dreamed of.
Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post

And these qualities are the grandest qualities of all superior people.
Extract from : « Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading » by Various

The cathedral here is the grandest in France, and I stay a week at least.
Extract from : « Hortus Inclusus » by John Ruskin

But I think the grandest part is to earn George Washington's board.
Extract from : « Mary Rose of Mifflin » by Frances R. Sterrett

But to my mind, much as I loved my master, Sorley Boy was the grandest of the three.
Extract from : « Sir Ludar » by Talbot Baines Reed

But their next retort to their enemies was the grandest of all.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

In the grandest scale he is called a financier; in the meanest, a pickpocket.
Extract from : « The Story of the Barbary Corsairs » by Stanley Lane-Poole

Synonyms for grandest

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