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Dignified vs Seemly - What's the difference?

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Dignified is a related term of seemly.


As adjectives the difference between dignified and seemly

is that dignified is respectable while seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.

As a verb dignified

is (dignify).

As an adverb seemly is

appropriately, fittingly.

dignified

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • respectable

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (dignify)

    • seemly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
    • His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
  • * Hooker
    • Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

    Synonyms

    * apposite

    Antonyms

    * unseemly

    Derived terms

    * * * seemliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Appropriately, fittingly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].