Stately
['steɪtlɪ] or ['stetli]
Definition
(superl.) Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.
(adv.) Majestically; loftily.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Lofty, dignified, majestic, imperial, magnificent, grand, noble, princely, royal, palatial, elevated, august.[2]. Pompous, ceremonious, solemn, formal.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dignified, imposing, lofty, elevated, lordly, proud, majestic, pompous,magnificent, grand
ANT:Undignified, unimposing, unstately, commonplace, mean
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Examples
- A stately palace has God built for you, O man! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Becky admired him smiling sumptuously, easy, lofty, and stately. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She sits, in her stately manner, holding her hand, and regardless of its roughness, puts it often to her lips. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My dear, noble, stately boy! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Winifred advanced with odd, stately formality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In fancy we shall see Milan again, and her stately Cathedral with its marble wilderness of graceful spires. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end--and what comes next! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Wilfer to colour, Mrs Wilfer, from a corner (she always got into stately corners) came to the rescue with a deep-toned 'Per-fectly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- So, Miss Summerson, she would say to me with stately triumph, this, you see, is the fortune inherited by my son. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And what a noble picture it and its statelier companion, with the chaos of mighty fragments scattered about them, yet makes in the moonlight! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy's food at last. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was the stateliest man in the company. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- My dear Mrs. Casaubon, said Lady Chettam, in her stateliest way, you do not, I hope, think there was any allusion to you in my mentioning Mrs. Beevor. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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