behavioural

English

Alternative forms

• behavioral (American spelling)

Etymology

From behaviour +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪˈheɪvjərəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /bɪˈheɪvjɚəl/

Adjective

behavioural (not comparable)

1. (British spelling) Of or pertaining to behaviour.
   • 2003 February 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 7 August 2014:

     Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.

Derived terms

• behaviouralist
• behaviourally
• biobehavioural
• interbehavioural
• microbehavioural
• neurobehavioural
• paleobehavioural
• psychobehavioural
• sociobehavioural

Related terms

• behaviouralism

Translations

of or pertaining to behaviour

Dutch: gedragsmatig Finnish: käyttäytymis- (fi), käytös- (fi) French: comportemental (fr) Galician: do comportamento m German: Verhaltens- (de) Hungarian: viselkedési (hu), magatartási (hu) Indonesian: perilaku (id) (followed by another noun) Malagasy: ara-pitondran-tena Polish: behawioralny (pl), zachowaniowy Romanian: comportamental (ro) Russian: поведе́нческий (ru) (povedénčeskij) Serbo-Croatian: bihejvioralno