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palatial

[ puh-ley-shuhl ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling a palace:

    a palatial home.

    Synonyms: grand, imposing, regal, noble

    Antonyms: simple, humble

  2. befitting or suitable for a palace; stately; magnificent:

    a palatial tapestry.

    Synonyms: grand, imposing, regal, noble

    Antonyms: simple, humble



palatial

/ pəˈleɪʃəl /

adjective

  1. of, resembling, or suitable for a palace; sumptuous


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Derived Forms

  • paˈlatially, adverb
  • paˈlatialness, noun

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Other Words From

  • pa·latial·ly adverb
  • pa·latial·ness noun
  • unpa·latial adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of palatial1

1745–55; < Latin palāti ( um ) palace + -al 1

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Example Sentences

The network built its star a new studio at CNBC headquarters in New Jersey and shelled out more money to build a separate one at Smith’s palatial Hamptons home owing to the pandemic, according to the people familiar with the situation.

It’s one of the largest collections of inland dunes in the country, and most of the off-road action happens around a palatial, 300-foot-tall dune called Oldsmobile Hill.

In an affluent suburb of Maryland, he hintingly asked the owner of a palatial residence where he might fill his canteen and was informed that there was a store two miles down the road that sold bottled water.

Come prepared for a rustic camping experience and a million-star view from the palatial deck.

We took a look at some of the most popular home security cameras and systems available, for those in small spaces and palatial homes alike.

The Daily Pic: In 1904 in Manhattan, the great Guastavino Co. gave palatial roofing to a subway station that's now derelict.

Gone are the palatial apartments, ideological rigidity, and red Prada slippers.

By the time their relationship was heading toward its end, Carey would call the palatial estate Sing Sing, after the prison.

English governesses tended to the children in Anand Bhavan – “Abode of Happiness” – the palatial Nehru residence.

There, she has put her old palatial home to use, filling it with children.

At the bureau he ordered a couple of packs of cards and a supply of drinks and went to his palatial room on the ground floor.

The castle was built in 1385 and appears to havePg 285 been intended more as a palatial residence than a feudal fortress.

For two or three miles fronting the beach there is a row of hotels, some of them most palatial.

This apartment is really a house on one floor; the entrance and stone stairway are quite palatial, and yet it is bon march.

The country is dotted with palatial hotels, and a golden flood of pleasure-seekers come in every winter.

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