doctorial

1. 1.

   of or relating to a doctor or doctorate

   “doctoral dissertation”

   “doctorial candidates”

   Synonymsdoctoral

Questions about doctorial

What does doctorial mean?

doctorial means "of or relating to a doctor or doctorate".

How many syllables are in doctorial?

doctorial has 4 syllables: doc-to-ri-al. The stress falls on "ri".

What is another word for doctorial?

Close synonyms include doctoral. 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 doctorial a common word?

doctorial 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.