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surgeonly

surgeonly adjective: befitting a surgeon.

Adjective

surgeonly (comparative more surgeonly, superlative most surgeonly)

  1. Befitting a surgeon.
    • Drawing his own pistol, he leaned to strike John Thomas with surgeonly precision along the temple. John Thomas dropped like a poleaxed steer. Dr. Amos had used exactly the force necessary to knock him out.1965, Borden Deal, Theodore Dreiser, Hyman Solomon Kraft, The Tobacco Men

Forms of surgeonly

comparativemore surgeonly
superlativemost surgeonly

Origin of surgeonly

From surgeon + -ly.

Questions about surgeonly

What does surgeonly mean?
Surgeonly means befitting a surgeon.
What part of speech is surgeonly?
Surgeonly is an adjective.

Words near surgeonly in the dictionary

  1. surgeonesses
  2. surgeonfish
  3. surgeonfishes
  4. surgeonless
  5. surgeonlike
  6. surgeonly
  7. surgeonries
  8. surgeonry
  9. surgeons
  10. surgeons general
  11. surgeons generals

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