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dowagerial

dowagerial adjective: of, pertaining to, or like a dowager.

Adjective

dowagerial (comparative more dowagerial, superlative most dowagerial)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or like a dowager.
    • After the kids had had their giggle, she said with her dowagerial smile, ‘And I’m told that you glory in it.’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 61

Forms of dowagerial

comparativemore dowagerial
superlativemost dowagerial

Origin of dowagerial

dowager + -ial

Questions about dowagerial

What does dowagerial mean?
Dowagerial means of, pertaining to, or like a dowager.
What part of speech is dowagerial?
Dowagerial is an adjective.

Words near dowagerial in the dictionary

  1. dowable
  2. dowage
  3. dowager
  4. dowager's hump
  5. dowager's humps
  6. dowagerial
  7. dowagerish
  8. dowagerism
  9. dowagerlike
  10. dowagerly
  11. dowagers

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