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doctory

doctory adjective: resembling or characteristic of a doctor.

Adjective

doctory (comparative more doctory, superlative most doctory)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a doctor.
    • Common folks are just men, except when they are your fathers; but ministers and doctors are men and something else, and Doctor Miller was more doctory than any other doctor in town.1920, Ellis Parker Butler, Swatty: A Story of Real Boys, page 178
    Synonyms:
    doctorlike, doctorly

Synonyms of doctory

Forms of doctory

comparativemore doctory
superlativemost doctory

Origin of doctory

From doctor + -y.

Questions about doctory

What does doctory mean?
Doctory means resembling or characteristic of a doctor.
What part of speech is doctory?
Doctory is an adjective.

Words near doctory in the dictionary

  1. Doctors' Commons
  2. doctors' offices
  3. doctorship
  4. doctorships
  5. doctorspeak
  6. doctory
  7. doctour
  8. doctours
  9. doctourship
  10. doctress
  11. doctresses

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