generational

Of, pertaining to, or changing over generations.

Adjective

  1. 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...
  2. Exceptional; the best/worst of a generation; once-in-a-generation.
  3. 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