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What is the adjective for queen?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs queen, dequeen and requeen which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

queenlike
  1. Resembling a queen (female monarch) or some aspect of one; regal, majestic.
  2. (zoology) Resembling a queen (reproductive female animal) or some aspect of one.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Although the laying workers functioned in a queenlike manner, they were unable to suppress ovarian development as effectively as the queen.”
      “These aphids live together in colonies, each founded by a highly fertile, queenlike female.”
queenish
  1. Like a queen; regal.
  2. Like a drag queen.
queenly
queeny
  1. (informal) Like a (royal) queen; queenly; queenish.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But using a famously queeny actor to accomplish this task of reassurance makes the film interesting to us fifty years later.”
      “The Scouser is ignorant, stupid and fat, the gay dad is queeny, stupid and over-dressed and the Asian is stingy, stupid and scared of his mum.”
      “By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for.”
queenless
  1. Without a queen.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.”
      “In the queenless ant S. peetersi, dyadic aggressions lead to a hierarchy, and only alpha mates and lays eggs.”
      “These samples were collected from different queenless colonies, the worker brood emerging being laid by workers.”
queenright
  1. (zoology, of colonies of bees, ants, etc.) Having a queen.
queenlier
queenliest
queenier
queeniest
queened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of queen
queening
  1. present participle of queen
dequeened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dequeen
dequeening
  1. present participle of dequeen
requeened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of requeen
requeening
  1. present participle of requeen
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