sartorial
UK/sɑːˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/US/sɑɹˈtɔɹ.i.əl/
sartorial adjective: of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.
Adjective
sartorial (comparative more sartorial, superlative most sartorial)
- Of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.
- His sartorial rebellions were slight: he wore jeans, for example, when giving tutorials.2001 December 21, Jay Parini, “By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them”, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, B24
- Suits are full of joy. They are the sartorial equivalent of a baby’s smile.2007, Carter Bays & Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mother, CBS, Episode 2ALH14
- Synonyms:
- vestiary
- Of or relating to the quality of dress.
- In his smart suit, Jacob was by far the most sartorial of our party.
- The UPI report noted that demonstrators sported "neon hairdos and tight leather clothes" as they blocked streets and disrupted traffic in a "Stop the City" demonstration. Sartorial descriptions were the order of the day in the UPI dispatch, as it went on to describe a protesting teenager with "pink...1984 April 14, Sue Hyde, “Queer Reports Dept.”, in Gay Community News, page 2
- Of or relating to the sartorius muscle.
Examples of sartorial in a sentence
- Sartorial descriptions were the order of the day in the UPI dispatch, as it went on to describe a protesting teenager with "pink hair and 11 earrings" and "youths with rainbow hairdos."1984 April 14, Sue Hyde, “Queer Reports Dept.”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
- He was just a college instructor at the time, long before he had written his book and long before his sartorial conversion.1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage...
- The gym has crushed my sartorial ambitions.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2025:
Synonyms of sartorial
Forms of sartorial
| comparative | more sartorial |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sartorial |
Origin of sartorial
From New Latin sartorius (“pertaining to a tailor”), from Late Latin sartor (“tailor”), from Latin sarcire (“to patch, mend”) + -ial.
Words formed from sartorial
Words that rhyme with sartorial
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- arboreal
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- senatorial
- tutorial
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- 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
- boreal
Questions about sartorial
- What does sartorial mean?
- Sartorial means of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.
- How do you use sartorial in a sentence?
- Sartorial descriptions were the order of the day in the UPI dispatch, as it went on to describe a protesting teenager with "pink hair and 11 earrings" and "youths with rainbow hairdos."
- What part of speech is sartorial?
- Sartorial is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sartorial?
- Sartorial is pronounced /sɑːˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/ (UK).
Words near sartorial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sartorial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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