professorial

1. 1.

   relating to or characteristic of professors

   “professorial demeanor”

Questions about professorial

What does professorial mean?

professorial means "relating to or characteristic of professors".

How many syllables are in professorial?

professorial has 5 syllables: pro-fes-so-ri-al. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˌpɹoʊfəˈsɔɹiəl/.

Is professorial a common word?

professorial 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.