English

Adjective

queenly ‎(comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

1. Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter III,

     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.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13,

     There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.

Synonyms

• queenlike

Derived terms

• queenliness

Adverb

queenly ‎(comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

1. In a queenly manner; regally.