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Lordly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a lord.

adj. Very dignified and noble: a lordly and charitable enterprise.

adj. Pretentiously arrogant and overbearing.

ad. In a dignified, noble fashion befitting or characteristic of a lord.

ad. In a pretentiously arrogant and overbearing manner.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. of or relating to a lord.

adj. Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord.

ad. In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.

adj. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

ad. In a lordly manner.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of the character or quality of a lord; having high or noble rank; noble; aristocratic.

Pertaining to or befitting a lord; characteristic of lordship; large or grand in scale, size, or extent.

Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

Synonyms Domineering, overbearing, lofty.

In the manner of a lord; hence, proudly; imperiously; despotically.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

adj. of or befitting a lord

Word Usage

"Van Horn, smoking his cigar in lordly indifferent fashion, kept his apparently uninterested eyes glued to each boy who made his way aft, box on shoulder, and stepped out on the land."

Equivalent

proud noble

Variant

lordlier lordliest

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

overbearing domineering haughty tyrannical imperious

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

princely stately kingly haughty aristocratic