Definition of professorial
: of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling a professor
- professorial duties
- professorial authority
- a calm, professorial manner
- Johnson was professorial in his approach to the game. He could talk for hours on the nuances of the Czechoslovak national team's power play.
- — E. M. Swift
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professorially
play \ˌprō-fə-ˈsȯr-ē-ə-lē, ˌprä-\ adverb-
- … a tall man with professorially thick glasses and graying, tangled hair …
- — John Seabrook
