Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the structure, organization, or functioning of society.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the social order or to natural society.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to society or social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to human society and its members
Etymologies
- society + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We came in naïve about what the problems were in Iraq, I don't think we understood what I call the societal devastation that occurred," he said, citing the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and the international sanctions from 1990 to 2003 that wiped out the middle class.”
International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
“Following the Beta launch of what it describes as a societal network, Microsoft has addressed some of the questions emerging around Vine.”
“In my opinion, there is the need for a change in societal perception of women especially in developing countries where such negative perceptions are dominant.”
Interview Thursday. Our 4th Male Guest: "I love to question things" - Unconventional Dammy
“I find "political correctness" works both ways in societal politess.”
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
“As you sifted through the Horn Book archives, as you looked through them for seminal essays to include, did you notice changes in societal notions regarding these different reading stages?”
The Huffington Post: Monica Edinger: A Book About Children's Books for Book Loving Adults
“These studies drive home several key issues, but two stand out: First, teachers cannot teach and parents cannot perform their duties responsibly if they do not have access, or appropriate guidance, training and support to deploy new technologies; and second, if we don't place a sharp emphasis on the 1.5 million children who enter kindergarten every year already behind their peers, we will face enormous long-term societal challenges.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Levine: Transforming Teaching for Today's Tech-Savvy Young Children
“However, with many traditional practices slow to die out, the blog says that changes in societal values brought about during the Soviet years have been overturned since independence.”
Global Voices in English » Georgia: Opposition protests enter fifth day
“The solemn future for Europe has more to do with a sea change in societal attitudes than in the future size and composition of its population.”
“Another factor is that urban dwellers have little patience for rural migrants, a built-in societal bias.”
If only one flower stands out, it is not truly spring: a Chinese house church pastor’s perspective
“Especially ones that have to do with shifts in societal morays.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘societal’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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dudu's Words
inevitable, gravel, scorched, oblivious, doze off, grate, gaunt, meritocracy, forensic accountants, proselytize, prolixity, prune and 48 more...
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McChris's Words
societal, societal, latency, moist, tacit, hail, persnickety, fastidious
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