professorly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The decorous, professorly group known as the College Art Association will descend on us this week for its 61st annual convention."
- "Of course the subjects weren't really professors, Davis said, just professorly looking men she had spotted."
- "So, after doing my professorly duty and dispensing wisdom, I hang up with the reporter and stand in the middle of the dark bedroom."
- "Reading The God Delusion, on the other hand, all I did was nod furiously and point at myself, and perform a little professorly strut around the train carriage."
- "Often compared to Bellow and Roth, his prose reminds me more of Chabon's, but perhaps more avuncular, more, yes, professorly, shaping the male Jewish consciousness."
Etymology
From professor + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more professorly (comparative)
most professorly (superlative)