Synonyms for DOCTOR
ˈdɒk tərdoc·tor

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1. doctornoun

   Synonyms:
   medic, veterinary surgeon, general practitioner, family doctor, doc, veterinarian, sawbones, GP, veterinary, surgeon, physician, vet

2. doctornoun

   A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

   Her children doctored her back to health.

   Synonyms:
   family doctor, physician, GP, veterinarian, medic, veterinary, surgeon, sawbones, veterinary surgeon, doc, vet, general practitioner

3. doctornoun

   To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor.

   If you still feel unwell tomorrow, go see your doctor.

   Synonyms:
   sawbones, vet, veterinary surgeon, doc, veterinarian, GP, veterinary, medic, surgeon, general practitioner, family doctor, physician

4. doctornoun

   To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

   Synonyms:
   vet, veterinary, sawbones, veterinarian, medic, physician, doc, veterinary surgeon, general practitioner, GP, surgeon, family doctor

5. doctorverb

   A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.

   Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.

   Synonyms:
   medic, doc, veterinary, sawbones, GP, veterinary surgeon, vet, general practitioner, family doctor, physician, surgeon, veterinarian

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., mediconoun

   a licensed medical practitioner

   "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"

   Synonyms:
   doc, medico, doctor, physician, mendelevium, medical student, atomic number 101

2. Doctor of the Church, Doctornoun

   (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching

   "the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages"

   Synonyms:
   doc, medico, physician

3. doctornoun

   children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office

   "the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"

   Synonyms:
   doc, medico, physician

4. doctor, Dr.verb

   a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution

   "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

   Synonyms:
   doc, medico, doctor, physician

5. sophisticate, doctor, doctor upverb

   alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

   "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

   Synonyms:
   pervert, fix, furbish up, twist around, restore, twist, convolute, repair, mend, bushel, doctor, sophisticate, doctor up, touch on

6. doctorverb

   give medical treatment to

   Synonyms:
   repair, furbish up, bushel, restore, touch on, mend, fix, sophisticate, doctor up

7. repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch onverb

   restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

   "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"

   Synonyms:
   touch, furbish up, cook, desexualise, sterilize, ready, concern, prepare, get, set up, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, secure, pertain, sterilise, gear up, impact, mend, regenerate, vivify, amend, situate, have-to doe with, heal, make, fasten, determine, renovate, bushel, desexualize, reestablish, define, specify, rejuvenate, reconstruct, sophisticate, quicken, refer, desex, affect, unsex, fixate, resort, restore, relate, rectify, touch on, recreate, deposit, remedy, repair, pay back, doctor up, posit, bear on, bear upon, come to, animate, reanimate, limit, revive, restitute, set, fix, pay off, reinstate, doctor, indemnify

Matched Categories

1. • Roman Catholic Church
   • Adulterate
   • Child's Play
   • Improve
   • Medicine
   • Theologian
   • Treat

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. doctornoun

   Synonyms:
   instructor, teacher

2. doctornoun

   Synonyms:
   adept, savant, learned man

3. doctornoun

   Synonyms:
   physician, medical practitioner

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. doctornoun

   Synonyms:
   physician, medical practitioner, leech, homeopath, allopath, interne, externe, savant, (ignorant) quack, empiric

2. doctorverb

   Synonyms:
   repair, treat, (Slang) tamper with, falsify, adulterate

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "doctor":

   physician, dr., medical, doc, medic, doctors, dr, docteur, physicians, médecin, doctorate, practitioner, doktor, ph.d., phd, medico, -doctor, surgeon

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1. Del Potro:

   I was worried so I decided to stop the game at the end of the second set to see the doctor and see what they say, i will do all of the exams now and then I will try to make a good decision for the future.

2. President Biden:

   I'm directing the Department of Health and Human Services to take steps to ensure these critical medications are available to the fullest extent possible, and the politicians can not interfere in the decisions that should be made between a woman and her doctor.

3. Phil Lesh & Friends:

   I am very fortunate to have the pathology reports show that the tumors are all non-aggressive, and that there is no indication that they have spread, so thanks to my local doctor Cliff Sewell and the incredible team at the Mayo Clinic, all is well and I can return to normal activities in two weeks from my surgery.

4. Sarah Boston:

   I thought, ‘Well, I'll just go into my doctor and probably have surgery in the next week or so to get this out,’ if I see a dog with thyroid cancer, they'll come in and usually have surgery within one or two days.

5. Paul Reiser:

   I was going to be the new guy that the government sent in to clean up the mess that happened in the first season, i asked, ‘Is he a bad guy?’ ‘Is he a good guy?’ They said, ‘We’re going to see.’ I don’t know if they knew already, but they didn’t tell me. We would get the scripts as the story went along… And the friendlier my character became, the more you got suspicious…. I was like, ‘Oh man, he sounds like your family doctor.'.