professor
Origin of professor
Related Words for professorial
educated, scientific, studied, scholarly, accomplished, well-educated, sound, experienced, versed, cultured, lettered, cultivated, grave, grounded, posted, abstruse, academic, bookish, brainy, conversantExamples from the Web for professorial
Contemporary Examples of professorial
Carroll, 56, has a professorial look about him, with a salt and pepper Ken Burns-style haircut, a beard and rimless glasses.
When he speaks he is casual and spontaneous, as if talking to an old friend, but can also at times still have a professorial tone.
Paul was professorial, with his history and geopolitical lessons on Islam.
To make matters worse, says the source close to Hagel, the White House also worried about Hagel being too professorial.
He was professorial, elliptical, vague, abstract; Romney appeared plausible, concerned, compassionate, and energetic.
Historical Examples of professorial
The same king endowed three professorial chairs with ₱ 10,000 each.
The Philippine IslandsJohn Foreman
Even for his classroom he had no platitudes, no stock of professorial anecdotes.
My AntoniaWilla Cather
Mackintosh would have been most at home in a professorial chair.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)Leslie Stephen
Consider, first, the repute that attaches to the professorial title.
Philosophy and The Social ProblemWill Durant
But this is not reprehensible; it is admirable—from the professorial point of view.
The Letters of William James, Vol. 1William James