<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>suitable for a lord, as trappings or ceremonies; grand or magnificent.</li><li>insolently imperious; haughty; arrogant; overbearing: lordly contempt.</li><li>of or relating to a lord.</li><li>having the character or attributes of a lord.</li><li>befitting a lord, as actions: lordly manners.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Also lordly.</li><li>in the manner of a lord.</li></ul>