stately

Speech parts

1. stately - Adjective

2. stately - Adverb

4. stately - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.

Majestically; loftily.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

august grand noble majestic formal imposing magnificent dignified lofty courtly baronial statuesque royal largo imperial
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Antonyms

old-fashioned haggard dowdy gaudy newsy poor
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Phrases with the word

stately queen stately nawab

Derivatives

statelier stateliest

Anagrams

estatly Sattley stylate

Examples

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. Samuel Johnson

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land. Felicia Hemans

I became one of the stately homos of England. Quentin Crisp

The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know. Julia Ward Howe

To-day stately and brave, to-morrow in the grave. Dutch Proverb

Close letter words and terms

statelily Stateline stateliness stately bush brown stately home stately nawab