generational

English

Etymology

From generation +‎ -al.

Adjective

generational (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. (informal) Exceptional; the best of a generation.

Derived terms

• cross-generational
• generational change
• generational conflict
• generational curse
• generational dynamics
• generational planet
• generational wealth
• intergenerational
• multigenerational
• Strauss-Howe generational theory
• transgenerational

 

Translations

of, pertaining to, or changing over generations

• Catalan: generacional
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 世代的 (shìdài de)

• Czech: generační
• Dutch: generationeel
• Esperanto: generacia
• Finnish: sukupolvien välinen, sukupolvittainen
• French: générationnel (fr)
• Galician: xeracional m or f
• German: generationell, generationsmäßig, Generations-
• Hebrew: דּוֹרִי m
• Ido: generacionala
• Italian: generazionale (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: pokoleniowy
• Portuguese: geracional m or f
• Russian: поколе́нческий (ru) (pokolénčeskij)
• Spanish: generacional