Synonyms of tweedy

tweedy

adjective

as in professorial

Related Words

• professorial
• bookish
• donnish
• pedagogical
• nerdy
• nerdish
• scholastic
• pedantic
• geeky
• scholarly
• educational
• academic
• intellectual
• curricular
• collegiate
• instructive
• postgraduate
• educative
• graduate

Dissimilar Words

• nonacademic
• extracurricular
• noneducational
• unscholarly
• unacademic
• cocurricular
• noncollegiate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tweedy

Her clothes, increasingly, have a pragmatic femininity, like a number of tweedy bellbottom suits that opened the show, some with vests of blue and coral beads covering the front, or diamond patterns of turquoise and plum sequins on the sleeves. — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2022

English cars have a tweedy character, Italian exotics can be fierce, but the French do a sort of wheeled quirkiness that's positively fizzing with zest. — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2022

Angela Lansbury is a tweedy country eccentric in wartime England, tootling around on a bronchitic sidecar motorbike and receiving mysterious parcels from a professor in London. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022

And speaking of getting back to business, there’s a tweedy Isabel Marant Etoile blazer that’ll do the job nicely. — Julie Tong, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2021