different between dignified vs queenly

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??n?fa?d/

Adjective

dignified (comparative more dignified, superlative most dignified)

1. Having an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise.

Translations

Verb

dignified

1. simple past tense and past participle of dignify

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kwi?nli/

Etymology 1

From Middle English queenly, quenly, from Old English cw?nl??, equivalent to queen +? -ly.

Adjective

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

1. Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter III, [1]

     So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13,

     There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.

   • 2018, Queen True, "A Royal Stink", True and the Rainbow Kingdom

     I'm so sorry. If I'd done my queenly duties right, none of this would have happened. But maybe I can fix it with some wish help.

Synonyms

• queenlike
• reginal

Derived terms

• queenliness

Etymology 2

From queen +? -ly.

Adverb

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

1. In a queenly manner; regally.

Synonyms

• queenlily