lordly

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.
  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.
  4. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
    — Lords are Lordlieſt in thir wine; […]
副词 adv.
  1. In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
    — 1891, Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation, Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, page 56, […] / And Herod's painted pinnaces, ablaze / With lamps, and brazen shields and spangled slaves, / Came and went lordly at Tiberias; / […]

词形变化

lordlier comparative more lordly comparative lordliest superlative most lordly superlative Lordly alternative lordlier comparative lordliest superlative Lordly alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
lordlily lordliness unlordly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lordly, lordlich, from Old English hlāfordlīċ (“lordly; heroic; noble”), equivalent to lord + -ly (forming adjectives).
词源 2
From Middle English lordly, lordely, lordliche, equivalent to lord + -ly (forming adverbs).
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