professorial

adjective

Definition of professorialnext
as in pedagogical

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Recent Examples of professorial Learning to Engage McMillon has an almost professorial air that’s articulate, polite and exudes competence — but his skill set was honed by long years of experience. — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026 Gabriel has secrets hiding beneath his professorial veneer. — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026 Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School. — Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026 Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role. — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 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
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  • Her work examines fashion as a cultural and ideological system, with a focus on copying, repetition, and reuse as critical and pedagogical strategies to question dominant notions of originality and value.
    — Vogue, Vogue, 30 July 2026
  • But many of these teachers come from graduate programs that prioritize theory over practice, and knowing various pedagogical approaches does not necessarily translate into teaching well.
    — Mike Goldstein, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026
Definition of pedagogical
Adjective
  • The Album, Bryce Savage’s not-so-bookish gurglefest about femme fatales.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
  • Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Definition of bookish
Adjective
  • Later, another nerdy boy will fall prey to their antics, yet there’s no gruesome violence on sight, only a melancholic and ethereal exorcizing of the demons that plague Emily’s heart.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 July 2026
  • The records sold out in a matter of days, and nerdy online chatter escalated with each repress.
    — Andrew Ryce, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
Definition of nerdy
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  • The Union’s move is a small reversal of a decades-long trend away from scholastic sports as a soccer development tool.
    — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 19 June 2026
  • Her work — rooted in teaching, scholastic research and mentoring — is continually focused on advancing social, racial and economic equity in secondary education classrooms.
    — Larry D. Urish, Oc Register, 3 June 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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  • Tornau is now working to publish the sermons for the first time in a scholarly edition after nearly two years of research.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
  • Konchalovsky’s miniseries certainly can’t be accused of being a scholarly work, but there is something distinctly Homeric about its tone and the fact that, above all, its goal is to entertain.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
Definition of scholarly
Adjective
  • Like Pompano High, Hallandale students will apply and meet certain academic criteria to get in and stay in.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026
  • But journalism has gotten so much smaller, and academia is also very precarious — and the idea of an academic writing in any kind of consumer-facing press is now considered a dig in your tenure file.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of academic

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“Professorial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/professorial. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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