generational
English
Etymology
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Middle English generacioun
English generation
English generational
From generation + -al.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
generational (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or changing over generations.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 November 2018:
- The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
- (informal) Exceptional; the best/worst of a generation; once-in-a-generation.
- (informal) Very good/bad (through semantic bleaching or weakening of the above sense).
- 2025 April 5, Josh Kirby, “Warren Buffett’s $230m bet on this Tesla killer changed the way I invest”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph[2], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 July 2025:
- Mr Musk’s actions are worrying shareholders – a gesture he referred to as a “Roman salute” has not gone down well in Europe. In a recent survey of over 100,000 Germans, 94pc said they would never purchase a Tesla, while sales in their country were down 62pc during the first quarter of 2025 compared to the year before. … Gen Z investors on social media refer to errors like this as “a generational fumble”.
Derived terms
- bigenerational
- cross-generational
- extragenerational
- generational change
- generational conflict
- generational curse
- generational dynamics
- generational lock-in
- generationally
- generational planet
- generational run
- generational wealth
- intergenerational
- intragenerational
- monogenerational
- multigenerational
- nongenerational
- Strauss-Howe generational theory
- transgenerational
- trigenerational
- unigenerational
Translations
of, pertaining to, or changing over generations
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂el- (grow)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-
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