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MAJESTIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or displaying great dignity or nobility
Example:
proud alpine peaks
Synonyms:
gallant; lofty; majestic; proud
Classified under:
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Derivation:
majesty (impressiveness in scale or proportion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
Example:
the royal carriage of a stag's head
Synonyms:
imperial; majestic; purple; regal; royal
Classified under:
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters
Example:
olympian beauty and serene composure
Synonyms:
majestic; olympian
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
superior (of or characteristic of high rank or importance)
Context examples:
And yet his first action, when the door had closed behind him, was to stagger against the table, whence he slipped down upon the floor, and there was that majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bearskin hearth-rug.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She carried herself in the most stately fashion, so that as I looked at her majestic entrance, and at the pose which she struck as she glanced at my father, I was reminded of the Queen of the Peruvians as, in the person of Miss Polly Hinton, she incited Boy Jim and myself to insurrection.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I found her a fine woman, in the style of Blanche Ingram: tall, dark, and majestic.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived in the sunshine, and looked down in wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures in the obscure depths immeasurably below them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river that I never before saw equalled.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The height of the trees and the thickness of the boles exceeded anything which I in my town-bred life could have imagined, shooting upwards in magnificent columns until, at an enormous distance above our heads, we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side-branches into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one great matted roof of verdure, through which only an occasional golden ray of sunshine shot downwards to trace a thin dazzling line of light amidst the majestic obscurity.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This was a new scene to us mountaineers; the majestic oaks, the quantity of game, and the herds of stately deer were all novelties to us.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home —the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers—she found ample scope for admiration and delight.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
