different between stately vs queenly

English

Etymology

From state +? -ly. Compare stour.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ste?tli/

Adjective

stately (comparative statelier, superlative stateliest)

1. Of people: worthy of respect; dignified, regal.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.

2. Of movement: deliberate, unhurried; dignified.
3. Grand, impressive, imposing.

Derived terms

• stately home

Translations

Adverb

stately (comparative more stately, superlative most stately)

1. In a stately manner.

Anagrams

• Sattley, stylate

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