presidential

presidential

English

Etymology

From president +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃ(ə)l/

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• Hyphenation: pres‧i‧den‧tial

Adjective

presidential (comparative more presidential, superlative most presidential)

1. Pertaining to a president or presidency. [from 17th c.]
2. (obsolete) Presiding or watching over. [17th–19th c.]
3. With the bearing or composure that befits a president; stately, dignified. [from 19th c.]
   • 2016, Stewart Lee, The Guardian, 20 November:

     I feel my age and supposed status mean I am permanently required to be in presidential mode. And I mean this in the old sense of “presidential”, meaning magnanimous, patient and generous, rather than in the modern sense of presidential, meaning being a corrupt, pussy-grabbing racist.

Derived terms

• nonpresidential
• postpresidential
• prepresidential
• presidentiality
• presidentially
• presidential memorandum
• presidentialness
• presidential palace
• unpresidential

 

Translations

pertaining to a president or presidency

Arabic: رِئَاسِيّ‎ (riʾāsiyy) Armenian: նախագահական (hy) (naxagahakan) Asturian: presidencial Belarusian: прэзідэ́нцкі (prezidéncki) Catalan: presidencial (ca) Czech: prezidentský (cs) Dutch: presidentieel (nl) French: présidentiel (fr) Galician: presidencial (gl) Georgian: საპრეზიდენტო (saṗrezidenṭo), პრეზიდენტული (ṗrezidenṭuli) German: präsidial (de), Präsidentschaft- Hungarian: elnöki (hu), elnök- (hu) Ido: prezidantala (io) Indonesian: presidensial (id) Italian: presidenziale (it) Kazakh: президенттік (prezidenttık) Polish: prezydencki (pl) Portuguese: presidencial (pt) Russian: президе́нтский (ru) (prezidéntskij) Spanish: presidencial (es) Tagalog: pampanguluhan Ukrainian: президе́нтський (prezydéntsʹkyj)

presiding

Catalan: presidencial (ca) French: présidentiel (fr) Galician: presidencial (gl) German: vorsitzend (de) Italian: presidenziale (it) Portuguese: presidencial (pt)