Word.ws English Dictionary

committal

/kəˈmɪtəl/

committal noun: the act of entrusting something to someone.

Noun

committal (countable and uncountable, plural committals)

  1. The act of entrusting something to someone.
  2. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
  3. The act of perpetrating an offence.
  4. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.

Adjective

committal (not generally comparable, comparative more committal, superlative most committal)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Of or relating to a committee.
  2. (not comparable, usually) Of or relating to commitment.
    • On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience.1869, Medical Record, volume 3, page 17
    • He points out that the former hypothesis is less committal epistemically, and he claims that nothing more committal is required to make sense of scientific method.1997, Jarrett Leplin, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism, page 138

committal meaning in Tamil and Kannada

committal in Tamil

ஒப்படைப்பு, பொறுப்புக் கடப்பாடு

committal in Kannada

ವಶಕ್ಕೆ ಒಪ್ಪಿಸುವುದು, ವಶಕ್ಕೆ ನೀಡುವುದು, ಹಾಕುವುದು

Forms of committal

Noun
pluralcommittals
alternative formcommital
Adjective
comparativemore committal
superlativemost committal

Origin of committal

From commit + -al.

From committee + -al.

Words formed from committal

Phrases with committal

Words that rhyme with committal

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about committal

What does committal mean?
Committal means the act of entrusting something to someone.
What is committal in Tamil?
Committal in Tamil is ஒப்படைப்பு, பொறுப்புக் கடப்பாடு. See Committal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is committal?
Committal can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce committal?
Committal is pronounced /kəˈmɪtəl/.
What is the plural of committal?
The plural of committal is committals.

Words near committal in the dictionary

  1. commits suicide
  2. commits to memory
  3. committ'st
  4. committability
  5. committable
  6. committal
  7. committal hearing
  8. committal hearings
  9. committally
  10. committals
  11. committed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: committal (page history and authors); committal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); committal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-committal.wav.

Cite this entry: “committal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/committal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.