Stately [adjective]

Definition of Stately:

dignified, impressive

Synonyms of Stately:

● Solemn

● Imposing

● Palatial

● Magnificent

● Opulent

● Luxurious

● Elegant

● Sumptuous

● Massive

● Grand

● Towering

● Imperial

● Ceremonial

● Gracious

● August

● Ceremonious

● Conventional

● Courtly

● Deliberate

● Elevated

● Formal

● Gallant

● Grandiose

● Haughty

● High

● High-minded

● Imperious

● Kingly

● Large

● Lofty

● Majestic

● Measured

● Monumental

● Noble

● Pompous

● Portly

● Proud

● Regal

● Royal

● Stiff

● Superb

● Highfaluting

● Queenly


Opposite/Antonyms of Stately:

● Undignified

● Little

● Mean

● Ugly

● Bad

● Small

● Poor

● Common

● Unimpressive

● Ordinary

● Informal

● Ignoble

● Tiny

● Minor

● Unimportant

● Insignificant


Sentence/Example of Stately:

Over the octagonal window, too, such draperies fell in stately lines.

Eudora paced down the sidewalk with a magnificent, stately gait.

Stately priests in long chitons paced to the music of flutes.

Adv.: wsa fengel geatolc gengde, passed on in a stately manner, 1402.

The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted.

People understood that Tellson's, in a stately way, tolerated the odd-job-man.

Oh, how stately the hollyhocks towered on the borders of the shrubbery!

A battle should be like a stately minuet, with no loss of dignity or of etiquette.'

He was tall and stout, and carried himself in what seemed to me a stately manner.

He was the mightiest man of valor in that same day of this our life, stalwart and stately.