statesmanly

1. 1.

   marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman

   “a man of statesmanlike judgment”

   “a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities”

   Synonymsstatesmanlike

Questions about statesmanly

What does statesmanly mean?

statesmanly means "marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman".

How many syllables are in statesmanly?

statesmanly has 4 syllables: sta-te-sman-ly. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for statesmanly?

Close synonyms include statesmanlike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is statesmanly a common word?

statesmanly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.