What is another word for professorial?

Pronunciation: [pɹəfɪsˈɔːɹɪəl] (IPA)

"Professorial" is an adjective that typically describes someone or something that is related to a professor or academia. However, if you want to avoid using the same word repeatedly, there are many synonyms that can also be used to describe the same thing. Some alternatives might include learned, scholarly, erudite, academic, intellectual, educational, knowledgeable, pedantic, punctilious, or didactic. Depending on the context in which "professorial" is being used, some of these synonyms may be a better fit. For example, if you were describing someone who has a lot of knowledge in their field, "erudite" or "learned" might be more appropriate, whereas "didactic" would describe someone who is very keen to teach or instruct.

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What are the hypernyms for Professorial?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for professorial?

The term "professorial" refers to someone who has the mannerisms or characteristics of a professor, such as being scholarly, intellectual, or didactic. However, there are several antonyms for the word that describe the opposite qualities. One such antonym is "unlearned," meaning lacking knowledge or education. Others include "ignorant," "unscholarly," or "nonacademic." These antonyms suggest a lack of formal education, intelligence, or expertise. To be "non-professorial" is to lack the qualities that make someone appear learned or academic. In this sense, antonyms for "professorial" can range from pejorative to neutral, but all describe a lack of scholarly attributes.

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Usage examples for Professorial

The widest awake professorial room in the land was Dr. Henry's, in the New York University.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
It is a very "sincere" and, from the point of view of ordinary philosophy-professorial manners, a very unconventional utterance, not particularly original at any one point, yet, in the midst of the literature of the way of thinking which it represents, with just that amount of squeak or shrillness in the voice that enables one book to tell, when others don't, to supersede its brethren, and be treated later as "representative."
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
For thirty-five years I have been suffering from the exigencies of being one, the pretension and the duty, namely, of meeting the mental needs and difficulties of other persons, needs that I couldn't possibly imagine and difficulties that I couldn't possibly understand; and now that I have shuffled off the professorial coil, the sense of freedom that comes to me is as surprising as it is exquisite.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James

Famous quotes with Professorial

  • Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
    William James
  • If a man cannot stand up in Charleston or Savannah or Richmond and say that he believes the right of every man to the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness to be self-evident ; if he be tarred and feathered for saying it, or ridden upon a rail, or ducked in a horse-pond, or driven out of his pulpit or professorial chair, or shot down in his office, or waited upon by a committee who cannot be answerable for the chivalric impatience of their fellow-citizens — Mr. Douglas says it is a proof that his political principles are ruinous and fatal; which is simply the argument of a highway robber to his victim whom he knocks on the head, that if he didn't carry so much money in his pocket he wouldn't be robbed.
    George William Curtis

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