golden

golden

adjective

Definition 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

2

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

Near Antonyms cavernous, hollow; faint, low, murmurous, muted, smothered, soft, weak; thin, tinny

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

Antonyms depressed, unprosperous, unsuccessful

4

of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color <a golden Labrador>

Synonyms fair, flaxen, golden, sandy, straw, tawny

Related Words ocherous (or ochreous); ash-blond (or ash-blonde), blondish, strawberry blonde (or strawberry blond), towheaded; gold, light, white

Near Antonyms black-a-vised, brown, brunet (or brunette), dark, olive, swart, swarthy; black, ebony, raven

5

pointing toward a happy outcome <that new job is a golden opportunity>

Synonyms auspicious, bright, encouraging, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious

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