nobly
In gallant fashion
Nobly means in a manner befitting nobility—with dignity, honor, or moral excellence.
Someone who acts nobly shows courage, generosity, or self-sacrifice: She nobly volunteered to take the blame.
The word can also describe impressive quality or grandeur: a nobly proportioned building.
Occasionally used with gentle irony for exaggerated virtue: He nobly offered to finish the last slice of pizza.
Moral soundness and consistency
- gallantryCourage, especially in combat
- valorCourage in danger
- chivalryKnightly code of honor
- uprightnessMoral correctness and honesty
rectitude · probity · decency · principled · ethical · righteousness · morality · fairness
In sovereign manner
- majesticallyIn an impressive manner
- statelyGrand and imposing
- grandlyIn imposing manner
- augustlyWith imposing dignity
solemnly · gracefully · elegantly · proudly · loftily · ceremoniously · formally · decorously
Without personal gain motive
- altruisticallyActing for others' good
- generouslyWith free-giving spirit
- magnanimouslyWith generous spirit
- benevolentlyIn a kindhearted manner
charitably · compassionately · sacrificially · philanthropically · humanely · kindly · graciously · munificently
integrity
Moral soundness and consistency
uprightness · rectitude · probity · decency · principled · ethical · righteousness · morality · fairness · trustworthiness
regally
In sovereign manner
- majesticallyIn an impressive manner
- statelyGrand and imposing
- grandlyIn imposing manner
augustly · solemnly · gracefully · elegantly · proudly · loftily · ceremoniously · formally · decorously · composedly
selflessly
Without personal gain motive
- altruisticallyActing for others' good
- generouslyWith free-giving spirit
- magnanimouslyWith generous spirit
benevolently · charitably · compassionately · sacrificially · philanthropically · humanely · kindly · graciously · munificently · unstintingly
royally
In kingly manner
- imperiallyIn a royal manner
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
- blue-bloodedOf noble ancestry
highborn · titled · peerage · lineage · ancestry · heritage · dynasty · lordly · courtly · genteel
noblyignobly
In dishonorable manner
dishonorably · basely · contemptibly · despicably · vilely
noblycravenly
In cowardly manner
selfishly · cowardly · pusillanimously · meanly · cringingly
- French nobilityFrance's hereditary elite
- noble familyLineage of aristocrats
- noble gasesNonreactive elemental group
- noble birthAristocratic family lineage
- noble deedsMorally admirable actions
- noble rankAristocratic social standing
noble, nobility, ignoble, ennoble, nobleman, nobles, noblesse, ennobled, noblemen