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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