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Antonyms for stately


Grammar : Adj
Spell : steyt-lee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪt li



Definition of stately

Origin :
  • "noble, splendid," late 14c., from state (n.1) in a sense of "costly and imposing display" (such as benefits a person of rank and wealth), early 14c.; a sense also preserved in the phrase to lie in state "to be ceremoniously exposed to view before interment" (1705). Hence also stateroom.
  • adj dignified, impressive
Example sentences :
  • Over the octagonal window, too, such draperies fell in stately lines.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • Eudora paced down the sidewalk with a magnificent, stately gait.
  • Extract from : « The Yates Pride » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Stately priests in long chitons paced to the music of flutes.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
  • Adv.: wsa fengel geatolc gengde, passed on in a stately manner, 1402.
  • Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown
  • The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • People understood that Tellson's, in a stately way, tolerated the odd-job-man.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • Oh, how stately the hollyhocks towered on the borders of the shrubbery!
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • A battle should be like a stately minuet, with no loss of dignity or of etiquette.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • He was tall and stout, and carried himself in what seemed to me a stately manner.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • He was the mightiest man of valor in that same day of this our life, stalwart and stately.
  • Extract from : « Beowulf » by Anonymous

Synonyms for stately

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