Word Meanings - PRINCELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.

Additional info about word: PRINCELY

1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune. "Most princely gifts." Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRINCELY)

• munificent
• Liberal
• princely
• bounteous
• generous
• Regal
• Kingly
• royal
• splendid
• imperial
• magnificent
• Sumptuous
• Costly
• gorgeous
• superb
• expensive
• prodigal
• lavish
• Superb
• Grand
• elegant
• showy
• proud
• august
• stately

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRINCELY)

• Husband
• store
• keep
• retain
• accumulate
• hoard
• treasure
• spare

Related words: (words related to PRINCELY)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• PRODIGALLY
  In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• ROYALIZE
  to make royal. Shak.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• REGALIAN
  Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives. Hallam.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• SMIRKINGLY
  With smirking; with a smirk.
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• MAWKINGLY
  Slatternly.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• MEDREGAL
  See 3
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.