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Synonyms for lordliness in English

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lordliness:
- arrogance; haughtiness; lordliness; hauteur; high-handedness; dignity; gravitas
lordly:
- princely; royal; lordly; grand; august; haughty; overbearing; disdainful; imperious; supercilious; prideful; sniffy; swaggering

English

Detailed Synonyms for lordliness in English

lordliness:

lordliness [the ~] noun

the lordliness

– overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors ¹
the arrogance; the haughtiness; the lordliness; the hauteur; the high-handedness
– overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors ¹
- arrogance [the ~] noun
- haughtiness [the ~] noun
- lordliness [the ~] noun
- hauteur [the ~] noun
- high-handedness [the ~] noun
the lordliness

– formality in bearing and appearance ¹
the dignity; the lordliness; the gravitas
– formality in bearing and appearance ¹
- dignity [the ~] noun
  - he behaved with great dignity¹
- lordliness [the ~] noun
- gravitas [the ~] noun

Alternate Synonyms for "lordliness":

dignity; gravitas; bearing; comportment; presence; mien
arrogance; haughtiness; hauteur; high-handedness; pride

Related Definitions for "lordliness":

overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors¹
formality in bearing and appearance¹

lordly:

lordly adj

lordly
princely; royal; lordly
- princely adj
- royal adj
- lordly adj
lordly

– of or befitting a lord ¹
grand; lordly; august
– of or befitting a lord ¹
- grand adj
- lordly adj
  - heir to a lordly fortune¹
- august adj
  - of august lineage¹
lordly

– having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy ¹
haughty; overbearing; disdainful; imperious; supercilious; lordly; prideful; sniffy; swaggering
– having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy ¹
- haughty adj
  - haughty aristocrats¹
- overbearing adj
- disdainful adj
  - some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines¹
- imperious adj
- supercilious adj
  - his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air¹
- lordly adj
  - his lordly manners were offensive¹
- prideful adj
  - walked with a prideful swagger¹
- sniffy adj
  - very sniffy about breaches of etiquette¹
- swaggering adj
  - a more swaggering mood than usual¹

Related Words for "lordly":

lordliness, lordlier, lordliest

Alternate Synonyms for "lordly":

august; grand; noble
disdainful; haughty; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering; proud

Related Definitions for "lordly":

of or befitting a lord¹
- heir to a lordly fortune¹
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy¹
- his lordly manners were offensive¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University