generational

English

Etymology

From generation +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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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 The New York Times‎, 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.

2. (informal) Exceptional; the best of a generation.
3. Very good (through semantic bleaching or weakening of the above sense).

Derived terms

• 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

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