teacherly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9

Definition of teacherly

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or relating to teachers.
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adj

  1. Of or relating to teachers.
  2. Suggestive of a teacher.
    “Instead of establishing rapport, Dreiske distances us with her implicit condescension; her cool, measured, teacherly tone doesn't help matters, either.”
    “While others take pains to reproduce Shawn's high, nervous stutter or his intense, anxious way of speaking, Shapiro--who looks nothing like Shawn--delivers this 90-minute piece in an easygoing, teacherly style that's the very antithesis of a New Yorker's hectic ways.”
    “Many of the lyrics were borrowed more or less intact from a 1986 grade-school textbook on Illinois history, and Greenfield delivers them in an earnest, teacherly tone enlivened by the occasional quippy aside or funny forced rhyme ("moratorium" / "Santorum").”

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Etymology

From teacher + -ly.

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