presidential

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   befitting a president

   criticized the candidate for not looking presidential

2. 2
   adj

   relating to a president or presidency

   presidential aides

3. 3
   adj

   Pertaining to a president or presidency.

   Take the New Right's full-throated embrace of protectionism and industrial policy. This romance with protectionism started in the 1990s with former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, gained enormous traction under former President Donald Trump, and is still going strong today.

4. 4
   adj

   With the bearing or composure that befits a president; stately, dignified.

   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.

5. 5
   adj

   (of prayers) addressed to God on behalf of the congregation by the presiding priest

   These prayers are addressed to God in the name of the entire holy people and all present, by the priest who presides over the assembly in the person of Christ. It is with good reason, therefore, that they are called the "presidential prayers."

6. 6
   adj

   Alternative letter-case form of presidential.

   Seward was not trusted by Greeley, Phillips, Lovejoy, and the radicals of their complexion. They apprehended that after using the "American citizens of African descent," until he (Seward) should be safely seated in the Presidential chair, he would abandon the negro and "Tylerize" their Party; hence, they would not trust him

7. 7
   adj

   Presiding or watching over.

Etymology

From president + -ial.