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queenliest

queenliest is the superlative form of queenly.

Meaning of queenly

Adjective

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

  1. Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
    • So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], The Mill on the Floss […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
  2. Resembling a queen (a typically feminine gay man); queenish.
    • The Pet Shop Boys are yet another synth-pop duo, albeit one that is not quite out of the closet. […] In past interviews, however, they [the Pet Shop Boys] have referred to their sound as "specifically gay disco," and their lyrics have that certain queenly something that lead singer Neil Tennant...1990 December 23, Christopher Wittke, “Pop Goes 1990”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 9

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Questions about queenliest

What is queenliest the superlative form of?
Queenliest is the superlative form of queenly.

Words near queenliest in the dictionary

  1. queenless
  2. queenlessness
  3. queenlet
  4. queenlets
  5. queenlier
  6. queenliest
  7. queenlike
  8. queenlily
  9. queenliness
  10. queenling
  11. queenlings

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