professorial

adjective

Definition of professorialnext
as in pedagogical

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Recent Examples of professorial Her account there is excessive and loose, a counterweight to her essays and memoirs, which can seem opaque and professorial. — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 17 June 2026 Masud Husain is a professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford. — Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026 And Rachel Weisz is very professorial in all those gently eccentric power separates. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026 An English professor at Harvard and the author of two acclaimed novels, The Old Drift (2019) and The Furrows (2022), Serpell combines a professorial breadth of reference and a novelist’s fascination with the mechanics of literature. — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for professorial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for professorial
  1. pedagogical
  2. bookish
  3. nerdy
  4. scholastic
  5. tweedy
  6. donnish
  7. scholarly
  8. academic
Adjective
  • There is a pedagogical explanation for the stylish uniforms, though.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • On August 27 Philip Engel of the University of Illinois Chicago posted a more pedagogical explanation of the LLM’s process on his website.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of pedagogical
Adjective
  • Celebrities were feeling bookish at Sunday’s Valentino show, as Alessandro Michele’s latest fashion week guest list arrived at the library.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2026
  • In the midst of the festivities, among a crowd of bookish faculty and graduate students, Annie and Wendy convinced an overheated newspaper photographer who’d been sent to cover the event to abandon his turtleneck.
    — Robert P. Baird, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of bookish
Adjective
  • Shy, nerdy and a pacifist by nature, Pavi has a personality, if one that’s still in formation.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • She is welcomed by other interns including the warm and fun Tabitha (Shrinking’s Lupita Maxwell) and nerdy Leonard (a funny Daniel Zolghadri), along with the more colorful Daphne (Iris Apatow).
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of nerdy
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  • The coming-of-age drama, based on Coffey’s life, follows a high school student with mild cerebral palsy trying to wrestle for the school’s scholastic wrestling team.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The district boasts 15 elementary schools — among them a regional gifted center, one scholastic academy and two Montessori schools.
    — Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of scholastic
Adjective
  • If tweedy free-speech absolutists and their aggrieved students are capable of finding common ground, this will be the issue that unites them.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • As men's wear grew less formal, Woody Allen would stake a claim on baggy khaki and corduroy as the uniform of a tweedy, tightly wound New Yorker.
    — Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 12 June 2024
Definition of tweedy
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  • Much of it is donnish intellectual history, full of interesting but digressive discussions.
    — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
Definition of donnish
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  • If the source is a scholarly journal article, the article’s title appears in a larger font above the additional bibliographic information.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Generating scholarly tomes at a rate of more than one a year involves obsessive amounts of research.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of scholarly
Adjective
  • The experts, who had all studied AI in academic settings, all brought up the ironies of the automation problem, where AI makes errors that humans can’t catch.
    — Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026
  • His main issues are declining enrollment, academic struggles, teacher turnover and family engagement.
    — Sophia Veneziano, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of academic

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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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