auctorial

1. 1.

   of or by or typical of an author

   “authorial comments”

   “auctorial flights of imagination”

   Synonymsauthorial

Questions about auctorial

What does auctorial mean?

auctorial means "of or by or typical of an author".

How many syllables are in auctorial?

auctorial has 4 syllables: a-uc-to-rial. The stress falls on "to".

What is another word for auctorial?

Close synonyms include authorial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auctorial a common word?

auctorial is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.