authorial

1. 1.

   of or by or typical of an author

   “authorial comments”

   “auctorial flights of imagination”

   Synonymsauctorial

Questions about authorial

What does authorial mean?

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

How many syllables are in authorial?

authorial has 4 syllables and divides as a-u-tho-rial under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for authorial?

Close synonyms include auctorial. 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 authorial a common word?

authorial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.