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What is the adjective for state?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs state and statement which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

statal
  1. (dated) Pertaining to a State of the American Union, in contrast to the federal government.
  2. Relating to any nation-state.
  3. (linguistics) Pertaining to a word form, such as a passive verb or a modifier, that describes the state of its subject rather than its action or process.
  4. Resulting from structural considerations as opposed to actions.
stateless
  1. (computer science) Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.
  2. (dated) Without state or pomp.
  3. (law) Without a state or nationality, not subject to any state.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The refugee, having no citizenship or belonging to any nation, was in a stateless condition.”
      “The stateless society encompasses the society of simple tribal cultures, and those societies have no formal government.”
      “Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists.”
stately
  1. (of people) regal, dignified; worthy of respect.
  2. (of movement) dignified; deliberate, unhurried.
  3. Imposing; grand, impressive.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Hence, his pictures of dignified students and tradesmen, of elegant homes and stately churches emerge.”
      “Everybody behaved with the dignity and courtesy demanded by such a stately ceremony.”
      “The whole poem is a stately homily on the suggestive text that moved Shelley to mourn that naught may endure but mutability.”
stated
  1. Expressed in a statement; uttered or written.
  2. Settled; established; fixed.
  3. Recurring at a regular time; not occasional.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The terms of your employment are clearly stated in your contract.”
      “It is important that you do not exceed the stated dose for your medication.”
statewide
stateful
  1. (computing) That supports different states, reacting to the same input differently depending on the current state.
  2. (obsolete) Full of state; stately.
statecrafty
  1. (rare) Able in statecraft, politically adept.
statesmanlike
  1. Like a statesman, demonstrating the skills and qualities of a respected leader.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “By refraining from criticizing other Democrats he appears more statesmanlike.”
      “He was well-briefed and spoke articulately about Scotland's qualities, although his public speaking set-pieces still lack a statesmanlike stamp.”
      “The senator's own descension into the gutter has also taken a toll on his assistant's statesmanlike image.”
statemental
  1. Pertaining to a statement or to statements.
statelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a state (geopolitical entity).
  2. Synonyms:
statemented
  1. (Britain, education) Having been provided with a Statement of Educational Needs.
stateable
  1. Alternative form of statable
statesmanly
  1. Befitting a statesman.
statable
  1. Capable of being stated.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Horwich recognizes that if he used substitutional quantifiers, his theory would be finitely statable.”
      “Knowledge about cognition refers to stable and statable information about one's own or someone else's cognitive processes.”
      “It is the one statable revelation of truth which he is ready to stake his all upon.”
state
statelier
  1. comparative form of stately: more stately
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I finally hit on an explanation: 'wood' sounded statelier and therefore suited a lyric sung by someone outside the action.”
      “Kerchiefed around his lower face and billowing out of the bottom of the mask is a flag, doubling, in statelier shades, the colors on the jug.”
      “All the rest of the evening she seemed to grow statelier, colder, more dazzlingly and imperially regal.”
stateliest
  1. superlative form of stately: most stately
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is the stateliest and the costliest ever erected to the memory of any man.”
      “When we drove up to his palace, one of the stateliest in marrakech, the street was thronged with clansmen and clients.”
      “There are those who pronounce vanda Sanderiana the stateliest of all orchids.”
stating
statementing
  1. present participle of statement
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