dowagerial

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or like a dowager.

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Meanings

adjectivedowagerial (comparative more dowagerial, superlative most dowagerial)

comparative more dowagerial · superlative most dowagerial

  1. Of, pertaining to, or like a dowager.

    After the kids had had their giggle, she said with her dowagerial smile, ‘And I’m told that you glory in it.’

    1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 61

Origin

dowager + -ial

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APA

dowagerial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dowagerial

MLA

“dowagerial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dowagerial. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dowagerial,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dowagerial.

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