Definitions
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
Word origin
From Middle English staately, staatly, stateli, statelie, stately, statelyche, statelye, statli, statly. Compare stour. By surface analysis, state + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Used in a sentence
“Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.”
“And much as they welcome his promise to repeal "don't ask, don't tell", they are dismayed by the stately pace and bungled tactics of his attempts to do so.”
“Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Dignified and grand”7 letters
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