Lordly

Definition: Lordly

Lordly

Adjective

1. Of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage".

2. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lordly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Lordly

Pride

Adjective: dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned.

Repute

Great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand, stately, august, princely. imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic, sacred, sublime, heaven-born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche; sacrosanct.

Crosswords: Lordly

Have her, then, but you're a lordly fool (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Butter in a lordly dish (reference)

• Emanations of Lordly Grace [Al-Fuyudat al-Rabbaniyya] (reference)

• Lordly Domains (Pendragon Role Playing Game Series) (reference)

• Northumbria's lordly strand : the Northumbrian coast from Berwick to Tynemouth (reference)

• The lordly Hudson ; collected poems of Paul Goodman (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

prej zotërie (gent, gentlemanlike), me kryelartësi, madhështor (brilliant, dignified, distinguished, exalted, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, imposing, impressive, kingly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, monumental, olympian, palatial, princely, proud, royal, spectacular, splendid, stately, sublime, superb), kryelartë (arrogant, cavalier, cocksy, cocky, conceited, consequential, haughty, high, lofty, proud, proud-stomached, stuck up, supercilious, toplofty), arrogant (arrogant, cavalier, haughty, imperious, jackanapes, pushful, pushing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فخم (deluxe, grand, grandiose, imperial, imposing, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, palatial, plushy, pompous, pontifical, regal, rich, royal, splendid, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), ‏متكبر (arrogant, conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, proud, snooty, supercilious, swank, swelling, upstage), ‏متغطرس (arrogant, conceited, haughty, imperious, insolent, lofty, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, proud, pushy, snooty, supercilious), ‏متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, haughty, imperious, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, stuffy, supercilious, swelling), ‏لوردي, ‏وقور (magisterial, proper, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, staid, thoughtful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щедър (benevolent, bountiful, charitable, flush, free, freehanded, generous, handsome, large handed, large-hearted, liberal, munificent, openhanded, pickwickian, princely, prodigal, profuse, stintless, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted), като лорд, господарски (magisterial, magistral, manorial, seigniorial), високомерен (airy, cavalier, domineering, grand, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, overweening, proud, snooty, snuffy, stiff necked, top-lofty), на лорд, богатски, богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, luxuriant, mellow, moneyed, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), подобаващ на лорд, пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton). (various references)

Chinese 

有氣派 . (various references)

Czech

panský (grand). (various references)

Finnish

ylväs (noble, proud). (various references)

French

seigneurial, plein de morgue, noble (lofty, Lord), majestueux, magnifique (lovely), hautain (lofty), généreux, arrogant. (various references)

German

vornehm (aristocratic, classy, courtly, dapper, distinguished, elegant, exclusive, fashionable, fine, genteel, gentlemanly, high ranking, highbred, ladylike, noble, noble-minded, nobly, plush, plushly, posh, poshly, refined, smart, stylish, swell, swish, up-market), hochmütig (arrogant, arrogantly, cavalier, haughtily, haughty, loftily, lofty, prideful, proud, superciliary, superciliously, uppish, uppity), hochherrschaftlich, herrschaftlich (grand, manorial), herrisch (authoritative, bossy, bullying, despotic, domineering, imperative, imperious, masterful, overbearing, overbearingly, peremptorily, peremptory), großzügig (ambitious, bounteous, bountiful, bountifully, broad, broad minded, broadminded, charitably, free, freehanded, generous, generously, handsome, handsomely, large, large scale, lavish, lavishly, liberal, liberally, noble, open handed, spacious, tolerant, ungrudging, ungrudgingly, unsparing, unsparingly, unstinting, unstintingly, warm-hearted), gebieterisch (authoritative, domineering, imperative, imperious, imperiously, magisterial, magisterially, masterful, peremptorily, peremptory), arrogant (arrogant). (various references)

Greek 

αρχοντικόσ (manorial, seigniorial). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת� שא (lofty, snob, standoffish, stuck up, supercilious, towering). (various references)

Hungarian

méltóságteljes (commanding, dignified, graceful, majestic, majestical, pontifical, portly). (various references)

Italian

liberale (freehanded, generous, lavish, liberal, liberally, open handed, openhanded), nobile (aristocrat, big, gentle, grand, great, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, of noble birth), magnifico (generous, glorious, gorgeous, magnificent, splendid, superb, swell, wonderful), imponente (arrestingly, awesome, awful, grand, imposing, massive, stately, towering), altero (dignified, lofty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誇り高い (proud). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほ�"りたかい (proud). (various references)

Manx

staydoil (ceremonious, pompous, portly, sedate, stately), ooasle (aristocratic, classy, dignified, esteemed, gentlemanly, honourable, illustrious, lofty, magnificent, patrician, respected), chiarnagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ordlylay.(various references)

Portuguese

vaidosamente (proudly, vainly), orgulhosamente (big, proudly), nobremente (kingly, nobly), magnificamente (nobly, proudly), arrogantemente (proudly), altivamente (proudly). (various references)

Romanian

semeţ (arrogant, brave, bravely, conceited, daring, daringly, haughtily, haughty, hoity toity, lofty, temerarious), maiestuos (dignified, imposing, majestic, majestically, proud, queenly, stately, sublime), domnesc, de lord (lordlike), darnic (boon, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, free-handed, generous, large, large handed, lavish, munificent), ca un lord, arogant (arrogant, arrogantly, assuming, assumptive, haughtily, haughty, high and mighty, overbearing, overbearingly, overweening, perky, pretentious, supercilious). (various references)

Russian 

роскошный (de luxe, deluxe, luxurious, palatial, plushy, posh, princely, rank, rich, splendid, sumptuous, voluptuous), гордый (elate, high minded, prideful, proud, proud-spirited), барственный, барский (grand), присущий лорду. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lordovski, gospodarski (liege, seigniorial). (various references)

Spanish

señorilmente, señoril, señorialmente, señorial (baronial, manorial), rumbon (freehanded, generous), imperioso (imperative, imperious, masterful, overbearing, overriding), imperiosamente, arrogantemente, arrogante (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, haughty, imperious, overweening, prideful, supercilious), altivo (arrogantly, haughtily, haughty, overbearing, overweening, supercilious), altivamente. (various references)

Swedish

ståtlig (gallant, handsome, lofty, noble, pompous, portly, proud, proud-stomached, stately), förnäm (dignified, distinguished, exclusive, fashionable, high, ladylike, noble). (various references)

Thai

สง่าผ่าเผย, อย่างมีลักษ�"ะของขุนนาง, หยิ่งยโส (lofty, sniffy), ซึ่งมีลักษ�"ะของขุนนาง. (various references)

Turkish

muhteşem (August, corking, glorious, gorgeous, grand, imperial, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, majestic, noble, olympian, regal, resplendent, royal, slashing, solemn, spectacular, splendid, stately, stupendous, superb), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, overweening, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), azametli (imposing, lofty, magnificent, ostentatious, pompous, proud), asil (aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, born in the purple, bottom, dignified, foundation, gently born, grand, ground, lineage, noble, of gentle birth, of noble birth, origin, royal, sublime, superior, well bred), amirane (authoritative, commandingly, dictatorial, imperiously, magisterial, masterfully). (various references)

Ukrainian

розкішний (baronial, beautiful, belgravian, bonzer, costly, dressy, exuberant, glittering, large, luxurious, palatial, ritzy, splendid, sumptuous, swank, upholstered, voluptuous), великодушний (benevolent, chivalrous, generous, large-hearted, liberal, magnanimous, noble, noble-minded, open-hearted), зарозуміло (arrogantly), зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage), по-панському, панський. (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngạo mạn (assumptive, cellophane, haughty, hubris, perky), hống hách (overbearing), hách dịch, cao thượng (elevated, high, high-pitched, high-spirited, magnanimous, noble, noble-minded, nobly), cao quý kiêu căng, có tính chất quý tộc. (various references)

Welsh

arglwyddaidd. (various references)

dryhtlic. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Lordly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: larly, loddy, Lodoli, lordy, Loriley, lorily, wordly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: drolly.

-1 letter: dolly, droll.

-2 letters: doll, dory, lord, lory, odyl, oldy, roll.

-3 letters: dol, dor, dry, old, rod, yod.

-4 letters: do, lo, od, or, oy, yo.

+1 letter: worldly.

+2 letters: dorsally, drollery, floridly, yodeller.

+3 letters: cordially, modularly, soldierly, trolleyed, unworldly, yodellers.

+4 letters: deplorably, dilatorily, dolorously, polyhedral, prodigally, redolently, toroidally, wordlessly.

+5 letters: codicillary, credulously, crystalloid, deliriously, deploringly, desultorily, doctrinally, editorially, foolhardily, ludicrously, maladroitly, scoundrelly, unsoldierly, wonderfully.