generational
Of, pertaining to, or changing over generations.
Adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or changing over generations.
- 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. - 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a...
- Exceptional; the best/worst of a generation; once-in-a-generation.
- Very good/bad (through semantic bleaching or weakening of the above sense).
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree English generation Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English generational From generation + -al.
Derived
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