professorial
/ˌprɒfəˈsɔːɹiəl/
professorial adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
Adjective
professorial (comparative more professorial, superlative most professorial)
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
- David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.1984 December 15, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Stryker”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 5
- Adamant that women could not enter the professorial fraternity, [[w:Cornell University|Cornell [University]]] did not appoint any women professors until 1911 and then only in home economics. Comstock regained her professorial title only in 1913, after working for many years as a lecturer (Conable...1997, Pamela M. Henson, “‘Through Books to Nature’: Anna Botsford Comstock and the Nature Study Movement”, in Barbara T. Gates, Ann B. Shteir, editors, Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science...
Forms of professorial
| comparative | more professorial |
|---|---|
| superlative | most professorial |
Origin of professorial
From Latin professōrius (“professiorial; authoritative”) + -al. By surface analysis, professor + -ial.
Words formed from professorial
Words that rhyme with professorial
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- arboreal
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- sartorial
- senatorial
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- tutorial
- accusatorial
- assessorial
- censorial
- combinatorial
- conspiratorial
- corporeal
- cursorial
- dictatorial
- directorial
- editorial
- enchorial
- epichorial
- executorial
- grallatorial
- imperatorial
- incorporeal
- intracorporeal
- lavatorial
- marmoreal
- multifactorial
- observatorial
- piscatorial
- primorial
- promontorial
- proprietorial
- purgatorial
- rasorial
- responsorial
- saltatorial
- scansorial
- sectorial
- spectatorial
- suctorial
- tectorial
- uxorial
- vectorial
- advertorial
- agitatorial
- amatorial
- ambassadorial
- ambulatorial
- ancestorial
- armorial
- assertorial
- auctorial
- auditorial
- authorial
Questions about professorial
- What does professorial mean?
- Professorial means of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
- What part of speech is professorial?
- Professorial is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce professorial?
- Professorial is pronounced /ˌprɒfəˈsɔːɹiəl/.
Words near professorial in the dictionary
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