Dictionary

teacherly en · ADJ

Etymology

From teacher + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to teachers.
2. Suggestive of a teacher.
   • 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. 1997 April 4, Jack Helbig, “The Fever”, in Chicago Reader:
   • Instead of establishing rapport, Dreiske distances us with her implicit condescension; her cool, measured, teacherly tone doesn't help matters, either. 1988 November 18, Albert Williams, “Don't Call Me Cleo”, in Chicago Reader:
   • 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"). 2004 May 14, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

Deriveds

unteacherly

Translations (2)

fi opettaja- (of or relating to teachers) · fi opettajamainen (suggestive of a teacher)