All knightly synonyms
knightΒ·ly
K k adj knightly
- accommodating β If you describe someone as accommodating, you like the fact that they are willing to do things in order to please you or help you.
- affable β Someone who is affable is pleasant and friendly.
- amiable β Someone who is amiable is friendly and pleasant to be with.
- amicable β When people have an amicable relationship, they are pleasant to each other and solve their problems without quarrelling.
- approachable β If you describe someone as approachable, you think that they are friendly and easy to talk to.
- beneficent β A beneficent person or thing helps people or results in something good.
- benevolent β If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
- benign β You use benign to describe someone who is kind, gentle, and harmless.
- benignant β kind; gracious, as a king to his subjects
- big-hearted β If you describe someone as big-hearted, you think they are kind and generous, and always willing to help people.
- bland β If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- charitable β A charitable organization or activity helps and supports people who are ill, very poor, or who have a disability.
- chivalrous β A chivalrous man is polite, kind, and unselfish, especially towards women.
- civil β You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it.
- compassionate β If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- complaisant β If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.
- congenial β friendly, pleasant, or agreeable
- considerate β Someone who is considerate pays attention to the needs, wishes, or feelings of other people.
- cordial β Cordial means friendly.
- courteous β Someone who is courteous is polite and respectful to other people.
- courtly β You use courtly to describe someone whose behaviour is very polite, often in a rather old-fashioned way.
- easy β not hard or difficult; requiring no great labor or effort: a book that is easy to read; an easy victory.
- forthcoming β coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- friendly β characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- gallant β brave, spirited, noble-minded, or chivalrous: a gallant knight; a gallant rescue attempt.
- genial β of or relating to the chin.
- good-natured β having or showing a pleasant, kindly disposition; amiable: a warm, good-natured person.
- hospitable β receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- indulgent β characterized by or showing indulgence; benignly lenient or permissive: an indulgent parent.
- lenient β agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent: He tended to be lenient toward the children. More lenient laws encouraged greater freedom of expression.
- loving β feeling or showing love; warmly affectionate; fond: loving glances.
- merciful β full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mild β amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- obliging β willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
- pleasing β giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- polite β showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- sociable β inclined to associate with or be in the company of others.
- stately β majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc.: a stately home.
- suave β (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
- tender β soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- unctuous β characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.
- urbane β having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.
- well-mannered β polite; courteous.
- bonhomous β exhibiting bonhomie
- good-hearted β kind or generous; considerate; benevolent.
adjective knightly
- gracious β pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.