Thesaurus
golden
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of GOLDEN
1
having qualities which inspire hope <this may be your golden moment to impress a baseball scout, so don't blow it>
Synonyms auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, upbeat
Related Words cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing; assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating; beamish, bullish, eupeptic; favorable, good
Near Antonyms cheerless, comfortless; doubtful, dubious, uncertain; bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable; funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched
Antonyms bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious
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marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones <sang in a golden alto that filled the concert hall>
Synonyms golden, orotund, plangent, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant
Related Words deep, full, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, plummy, rich; loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderous
3
marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically <the golden age of industrialization>
Synonyms booming, boomy, flourishing, golden, halcyon, healthy, lush, palmy, prospering, roaring, successful, thriving
Related Words affluent, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do; comfortable
Near Antonyms declining, dying, failing, floundering, languishing, struggling; bankrupt, bankrupted, insolvent
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pointing toward a happy outcome <that new job is a golden opportunity>
Related Words fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential; advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary
Near Antonyms unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky; calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous; baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening
Antonyms dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious
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