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masturbatory

mas·tur·bat·ory/ˈmæs.tɚ.bəˌtɔːr.i/adjective

masturbatory is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to masturbation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-S-T-U-R-B-A-T-O-R-Y and has 4 syllables (mas·tur·bat·ory), and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does masturbatory mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to masturbation.

    A common belief is that women are slower than men in their sexual responses, but the masturbatory data do not reflect that opinion.

  2. 2

    derogatoryExcessively self-absorbed or self-indulgent; concerned primarily with one's own gratification or interests.

  3. 3

    Self-indulgent and ultimately unproductive; serving primarily to gratify oneself rather than producing anything meaningful or substantive.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce masturbatory?

  • UK /ˌmæs.tɜː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.tə.ɹi/
  • US /ˈmæs.tɚ.bəˌtɔːr.i/

Masturbatory has 4 syllables, split mas·tur·bat·ory in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-masturbatory.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of masturbatory

  • more masturbatory comparative
  • most masturbatory superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is masturbatory?

Masturbatory appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Masturbatory in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmasturbatoire (of or relating to masturbation), masturbant ((of activites, works, etc., figurative)…)
Germanmasturbatorisch (of or relating to masturbation)
Portuguesemasturbatório (of or relating to masturbation)
Spanishmasturbatorio (of or relating to masturbation)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does masturbatory come from?

From masturbate + -ory.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).