Meanings
- not comparableOf or pertaining to a governor or the office of governor.
The RNC entered June with about $72.4 million in cash reserves, nearly five times the $15 million stockpiled by the DNC, as the two parties gear up for gubernatorial races this fall and next year’s costly midterm elections for Congress.
2025 June 21, Fredreka Schouten and Arit John, “The DNC’s cash crunch deepens as new filings show Republicans with a huge advantage”, in CNN1 more example
In his famous 1934 campaign for the governorship of California, the author and activist Upton Sinclair took an unusual step. […] As Carey McWilliams later wrote about his friend's gubernatorial bid as it went south, “Upton not only realized that he would be defeated but seemed somehow to have lost interest in the campaign. In that vivid imagination of his, he had already acted out the part of 'I, Governor of California,'...so why bother to enact it in real life?”
2016, Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pages 23-24Synonyms: executive
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf or pertaining to a governor or the office of governor.
Origin
- Latingubernātor“governor”
- Englishgubernatorial
From Latin gubernātor (“governor”), from gubernō (“govern”), + -ial.
More words from Latin
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Dutch gouverneurs
- gouverneursof or pertaining to a governor
German Gouverneurs-
- Gouverneurs-of or pertaining to a governor
Hungarian kormányzói, kormányzó-
- kormányzóiof or pertaining to a governor
- kormányzó-of or pertaining to a governor
Italian governatoriale
- governatorialeof or pertaining to a governor
Polish gubernatorski
- gubernatorskiof or pertaining to a governor
Russian губерна́торский
- губерна́торский (gubernátorskij)of or pertaining to a governor
Spanish gubernativo, gubernamental
- gubernativoof or pertaining to a governor
- gubernamentalof or pertaining to a governor
- gobernativoof or pertaining to a governor
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with gubernatorial
Cite this entry
gubernatorial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gubernatorial
“gubernatorial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gubernatorial. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gubernatorial,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gubernatorial.
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