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1. stately
adjective. ['ˈsteɪtli'] impressive in appearance.
Antonyms
Etymology
- -ly (English)
- -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- state (English)
- status (Latin)
Rhymes with Stately
- sedately
- ornately
- innately
- greatly
- lately
- gately
- gateley
How do you pronounce stately?
Pronounce stately as ˈsteɪtli.
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Sentences with stately
1. Adverb
The tree is also prized as a landscape plant for its tall and stately form.
2. Adjective
Its exterior is classic black and white, with a stately drawing of a rooster as the centerpiece.
Quotes about stately
1. In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems
2. When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
- Luci Anneu Sèneca
2. stately
adjective. ['ˈsteɪtli'] refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court.
Antonyms
Etymology
- -ly (English)
- -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- state (English)
- status (Latin)
3. stately
adjective. ['ˈsteɪtli'] of size and dignity suggestive of a statue.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- -ly (English)
- -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- state (English)
- status (Latin)