generational
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From generation + -al.
Adjective
[edit]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 New York Times[1]:
- 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 of a generation.
Derived terms
[edit]- bigenerational
- cross-generational
- extragenerational
- generational change
- generational conflict
- generational curse
- generational dynamics
- generationally
- generational planet
- generational wealth
- intergenerational
- intragenerational
- monogenerational
- multigenerational
- nongenerational
- Strauss-Howe generational theory
- transgenerational
- trigenerational
- unigenerational
Translations
[edit]of, pertaining to, or changing over generations
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