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queenly

/ˈkwiːnli/

queenly adjective: having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.

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
    • There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →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

Adverb

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

  1. In a queenly manner; regally.
    Synonyms:
    queenlily, reginally

queenly meaning in Malayalam

queenly in Malayalam

രാജ്ഞിയെപ്പോലുളള, രാജ്ഞി തുല്യ, രാജ്ഞീസദൃശ

Synonyms of queenly

Forms of queenly

Adjective
comparativequeenlier
superlativequeenliest
Adverb
comparativequeenlier
superlativequeenliest

Origin of queenly

From Middle English queenly, quenly, from Old English cwēnlīċ, equivalent to queen + -ly.

From queen + -ly.

Words formed from queenly

Questions about queenly

What does queenly mean?
Queenly means having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
What is queenly in Malayalam?
Queenly in Malayalam is രാജ്ഞിയെപ്പോലുളള, രാജ്ഞി തുല്യ, രാജ്ഞീസദൃശ. See Queenly meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is queenly?
Queenly can be an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce queenly?
Queenly is pronounced /ˈkwiːnli/.

Words near queenly in the dictionary

  1. queenlike
  2. queenlily
  3. queenliness
  4. queenling
  5. queenlings
  6. queenly
  7. queenmaker
  8. queenmakers
  9. queenophone
  10. queenophones
  11. queenpin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: queenly (page history and authors); queenly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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