MAJESTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does majestic mean? 

• MAJESTIC (adjective)
  The adjective MAJESTIC has 3 senses:

1. majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters

2. having or displaying great dignity or nobility

3. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

  Familiarity information: MAJESTIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAJESTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters

Synonyms:

majestic; olympian

Context example:

olympian beauty and serene composure

Similar:

superior (of or characteristic of high rank or importance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or displaying great dignity or nobility

Synonyms:

gallant; lofty; majestic; proud

Context example:

proud alpine peaks

Similar:

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

Derivation:

majesty (impressiveness in scale or proportion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

Synonyms:

imperial; majestic; purple; regal; royal

Context example:

the royal carriage of a stag's head

Similar:

noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)

 Context examples 

Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes, but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had heard the click of the garden gate, and now the majestic figure of the great African explorer appeared upon the path.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If he liked the majestic, she was the very type of majesty: then she was accomplished, sprightly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This majestic spiral galaxy might earn the nickname the "Godzilla galaxy" because it may be the largest known in the local universe.

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

It seems to be a landmark building, a majestic castle, or wood-paneled exclusive club for example.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I am surprised, sir, boomed Challenger, stroking his majestic beard, that any man of science should commit himself to so ignoble a sentiment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With these words, Mrs. Crupp, affecting to be very careful of the brandy—which was all gone—thanked me with a majestic curtsey, and retired.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The poem swung in majestic rhythm to the cool tumult of interstellar conflict, to the onset of starry hosts, to the impact of cold suns and the flaming up of nebulae in the darkened void; and through it all, unceasing and faint, like a silver shuttle, ran the frail, piping voice of man, a querulous chirp amid the screaming of planets and the crash of systems.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The path which the young clerk had now to follow lay through a magnificent forest of the very heaviest timber, where the giant bowls of oak and of beech formed long aisles in every direction, shooting up their huge branches to build the majestic arches of Nature's own cathedral.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)