Kingly vs Superb - What's the difference?
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Majestic and regal.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* kingly magnificence
* Jonathan Swift
* Shakespeare
* G. Massey
* Cowper
First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
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(lb) Haughty.
*1858 , (Julia Kavanagh), Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
*:A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
As adjectives the difference between kingly and superb
is that kingly is majestic and regal while superb is first-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.As an adverb kingly
is in a royal manner.kingly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) kyngly, from (etyl) *.Adjective
(er)- a kingly government
- the kingly couch
- The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.
- Leave kingly' backs to cope with ' kingly cares.