Word.ws English Dictionary

lordliest

lordliest is the superlative form of lordly.

Meaning of lordly

Adjective

lordly (comparative lordlier or more lordly, superlative lordliest or most lordly)

  1. Of or relating to a lord.
    • Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
  2. Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble
    • Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 30
  3. Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
    • He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought forth butter in a lordly dish.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 5:25
  4. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
    • Lords are Lordlieſt in thir wine; […]1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 84

See all 5 meanings of lordly

Adjective capitalized: Lordliest

Lordliest

  1. (superlative) superlative form of Lordly: most Lordly

Questions about lordliest

What is lordliest the superlative form of?
Lordliest is the superlative form of lordly.
What part of speech is lordliest?
Lordliest is an adjective.

Words near lordliest in the dictionary

  1. lordless
  2. lordlessness
  3. lordlet
  4. lordlets
  5. lordlier
  6. lordliest
  7. lordlike
  8. lordlily
  9. lordliness
  10. lordlinesses
  11. lordling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lordliest (page history and authors); Lordliest (page history and authors); lordly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lordliest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lordliest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.