Synonyms for stately
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : steyt-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪt li |
Top 10 synonyms for stately Other synonyms for the word stately
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for stately
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