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, 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, 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, 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, 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. Isaac Asimov:

   If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

2. Author Unknown:

   A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?""Only the village druggist," was the answer."And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman."Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

3. Rachael Farrokh:

   My doctor wants me to stay here( in California) and is bringing the hospital basically to my bedside, i'll have a doctor, a registered nurse, therapist and other specialist treat me from home. My eating disorder doctor has set all of this up for me.

4. Susan Watson:

   The ER doctor called in the middle of the night and said,' Your son overdosed, and The ER doctor's dead.' Just that matter-of-fact, and I didn't believe The ER doctor at first. Then I just screamed and cried on the floor, and my husband took the phone, he got some heroin, and apparently it was laced with cocaine and fentanyl. I don't think that he knew that. He used it, he overdosed, and he died instantly. The ER doctor said The ER doctor probably didn't know it was laced with the cocaine and fentanyl.

5. Frank Lloyd Wright:

   A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.