Antonyms for stateliness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : steyt-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪt li |
- bad manners
- condemnation
- debasement
- denunciation
- depression
- disgrace
- dishonor
- dullness
- evil
- hiding
- humiliation
- immorality
- indecency
- inferiority
- insignificance
- littleness
- lowliness
- meanness
- modesty
- ordinariness
- plainness
- poorness
- selfishness
- simplicity
- smallness
- tininess
- ugliness
- unimportance
- unostentatiousness
- worthlessness
Definition of stateliness
Origin :- "noble, splendid," late 14c., from state (n.1) in a sense of "costly and imposing display" (such as benefits a person of rank and wealth), early 14c.; a sense also preserved in the phrase to lie in state "to be ceremoniously exposed to view before interment" (1705). Hence also stateroom.
- As in nobility : noun aristocracy; eminence
- As in splendor : noun radiance, glory
- As in magnificence : noun grandeur
- As in majesty : noun grandeur
- As in elegancy : noun elegance
- As in noblesse : noun nobility
- As in dignity : noun excellence, nobility
- As in grandeur : noun great importance
- As in greatness : noun nobleness of character; eminence
- I have explored its large and little streets, its stateliness and its slums.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- We marched along like this with all the stateliness and solemnity of camels!
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- I prefer a tendency to stateliness to an excess of fellowship.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The stateliness of her figure completed the impression of a Roman matron.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- Where's dignity, leisure, stateliness; where's Art and Eloquence?
- Extract from : « More Trivia » by Logan Pearsall Smith
- A vision of Cecilia swam before him, gracious in stateliness.
- Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith
- The stateliness of the youth struck me: he held himself like an emperor.
- Extract from : « Brittany » by Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes
- It has a stateliness which makes it well adapted to dignified themes.
- Extract from : « English Narrative Poems » by Various
- The sugar in her mouth did not impair the stateliness of her manner and utterance.
- Extract from : « The Last Entry » by William Clark Russell
- "That could never matter," Walter said, with some stateliness.
- Extract from : « The Wizard's Son, vol. 3 » by Margaret Oliphant
Synonyms for stateliness
- address
- amplitude
- augustness
- beauty
- birth
- blood
- blue blood
- breadth
- brightness
- brilliance
- cachet
- celebrity
- ceremony
- character
- chivalry
- circumstance
- class
- consequence
- courtliness
- culture
- dazzle
- decency
- decorum
- dignity
- display
- distinction
- effulgence
- elegance
- elevation
- elite
- eminence
- ennoblement
- ethics
- etiquette
- exaltation
- exaltedness
- excellence
- expansiveness
- fame
- fineness
- flourish
- generosity
- gentry
- glitter
- glorification
- glory
- gorgeousness
- grace
- gracefulness
- grandeur
- grandiosity
- gravity
- greatness
- handsomeness
- hauteur
- heroism
- high society
- high-mindedness
- honor
- idealism
- illustriousness
- immensity
- importance
- impressiveness
- inclusiveness
- incorruptibility
- integrity
- lavishness
- loftiness
- luster
- luxuriousness
- magnanimity
- magnificence
- majesty
- merit
- might
- morality
- nobility
- nobleness
- note
- opulence
- ostentation
- ostentatiousness
- pageant
- patricians
- peerage
- perfection
- poise
- polish
- politeness
- pomp
- post
- preeminence
- prestige
- prominence
- propriety
- pulchritude
- quality
- radiance
- rank
- refinement
- refulgence
- regard
- renown
- respectability
- resplendence
- resplendency
- richness
- royalty
- ruling class
- seemliness
- self-respect
- show
- significance
- society
- solemnity
- spectacle
- spectacularity
- splendor
- standing
- state
- stateliness
- station
- stature
- status
- style
- sublimity
- sumptuousness
- superbity
- superiority
- swank
- sway
- tastefulness
- transcendency
- upper class
- uprightness
- urbanity
- vastness
- virtue
- worth
- worthiness
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