Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to the environment.
That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848 - not comparableEnvironmentally friendly.
Because consumers who are buying such productss cannot fully internalize the external utility of their purchase, prices for environmental products and other environmental innovations may be insufficiently high to cover their costs ( Kaas, 1993; Cleff and Rennings, 1999).
2000, Henk Folmer, H. Landis Gabel, Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics, page 365
plural environmentals
- computingAny factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to hold equipment.
The process to enable migration from the vendor-supplied configuration to a new architecture depends on many system environmentals.
2014, Kenneth Barrett, Stephen Norris, Running Mainframe z on Distributed Platforms, page 136
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Old Latinen
- Latinin
- Old Frenchen
- Latinvibrāre?
- Vulgar Latin*virāre
- Old Frenchvirer
- Old Frenchviron
- Old Frenchenviron
- Middle Frenchenviron
- Middle Frenchenvironner
- Middle Frenchenvironnement
- Englishenvironment
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishenvironmental
From environment + -al.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic بِيئِيّ
- بِيئِيّ (bīʔiyy)pertaining to the environment
Catalan ambiental, mediambiental
- ambientalpertaining to the environment
- mediambientalpertaining to the environment
Chinese Mandarin 環境的 /环境的
- 環境的 /环境的 (huánjìng de)pertaining to the environment
Czech environmentální
- environmentálnípertaining to the environment
Danish miljø-, miljømæssig
- miljø-pertaining to the environment
- miljømæssigpertaining to the environment
Estonian keskkonna-
- keskkonna-pertaining to the environment
Finnish ympäristöllinen, ympäristö-
- ympäristöllinenpertaining to the environment
- ympäristö-pertaining to the environment
- ympäristön-pertaining to the environment
French environnemental
- environnementalpertaining to the environment
German Umwelt-
- Umwelt-pertaining to the environment
Greek περιβαλλοντικός
- περιβαλλοντικός (perivallontikós)pertaining to the environment
Hebrew סְבִיבָתִי
- סְבִיבָתִי (s'vivatí)pertaining to the environment
Italian ambientale
- ambientalepertaining to the environment
Polish środowiskowy
- środowiskowypertaining to the environment
Portuguese ambiental
- ambientalpertaining to the environment
Russian относя́щийся к окружа́ющей среде́, экологи́ческий
- относя́щийся к окружа́ющей среде́ (otnosjáščijsja k okružájuščej sredé)pertaining to the environment
- экологи́ческий (ekologíčeskij)pertaining to the environment
Spanish ambiental
- ambientalpertaining to the environment
Swahili kimazingira
- kimazingirapertaining to the environment
Swedish miljö-, miljömässig
- miljö-pertaining to the environment
- miljömässigpertaining to the environment
Turkish çevresel
- çevreselpertaining to the environment
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with environmental
Cite this entry
environmental. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/environmental
“environmental.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/environmental. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “environmental,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/environmental.
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