Stateliest Synonyms and Antonyms

Characterized by elaborate but usually formal courtesy
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. courtliest
Impressive in appearance
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. noblest
  2. lordliest
  3. princeliest
  4. grandest
  5. haughtiest
  6. loftiest
  7. courtliest
  8. proudest
  9. sublimest
Antonyms:
  1. commonest
  2. simplest
Impressive and dignified, as in size or appearance; majestic:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. grandest
Said of objects
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. highest
  2. loftiest
  3. grandest
  4. largest
Antonyms:
  1. poorest

Stateliest Sentence Examples

  • The stateliest is the national monument to commemorate the victory of Waterloo, originally intended to be a reproduction of the Parthenon.

  • In a favourable soil and open situation it becomes the tallest and one of the stateliest of European trees, rising sometimes to a height of from 150 to 170 ft., the trunk attaining a diameter of from 5 to 6 ft.

  • Tennyson's health slowly became restored, and in 1846 he was hard at work on The Princess; in the autumn of this year he took a tour in Switzerland, and saw great mountains and such "stateliest bits of landskip" for the first time.

  • Of the crane there are seven species, the stateliest and most beautiful being the Grus japonensis (tanchO or tanchO-zuru), which stands some 5 ft.

  • Of the renowned group of Border abbeys - Jedburgh, Melrose, Dryburgh and Kelso - that of Jedburgh is the stateliest.