Emeritus
Emeritus adjective - Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Emeritus
Both words in one sentence
-
The Bridge in the Menagerie series has the Emeritus Professor of Bio-Sophistry, aka the Secretary Bird, who insists on pedantically enforcing obscure bridge rules even when everybody else at the table would rather just let the offence go and get on with it.
Source: Obstructive Bureaucrat
Cite this Source
Obscure and Emeritus. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/emeritus/obscure
Emeritus & Obscure. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/emeritus/obscure>.
Obscure or Emeritus. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/emeritus/obscure.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "emeritus" and "obscure" have occurred on timeline