GILT-EDGED Synonyms

• ostentatiously rich and superior in quality

• elegant and sumptuous

• a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status

• selected as the best

• very good; of the highest quality

• excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• not divided or shared with others

• not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective

• intense or sharp

• lavishly elegant and refined

• delicately beautiful

• of extreme beauty

• of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles

• money extracted as a penalty

• an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence

• in a delicate manner

• being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition

• minutely precise especially in differences in meaning

• thin in thickness or diameter

• characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment

• free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity

• record a fine as a penalty in a police record

• impose a fine on

• very good; of the highest quality

• displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

• ostentatiously rich and superior in quality

• distinguished from others in excellence

• having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

• owed as a debt

• of major significance or importance

• payment for insurance

• the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value

• a fee charged for exchanging currencies

• a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.

• payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military

• having or reflecting superior quality or value; having a higher price or cost

• of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers

• a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.

• the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest

• first in rank or degree

• used of the first or originating agent

• of superior grade

• being at the best stage of development

• insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing

• cover with a primer; apply a primer to

• fill with priming liquid

• of superior grade

• selected or chosen for special qualifications

• pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives

• of surpassing excellence

• surpassingly good

• of high or superior quality or performance

• of or characteristic of high rank or importance

• written or printed above and to one side of another character

• having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit

• the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes

• one of greater rank or station or quality

• a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth

• the head of a religious community

• a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

• a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

• (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by

• having a higher rank

• (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by

• surpassing in quality

• of the highest quality

• surpassing in quality