congressional
/kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/
congressional adjective: of or relating to a congress.
Adjective (1)
congressional (comparative more congressional, superlative most congressional)
- Of or relating to a congress.
- That the Oath Keepers recording went uninvestigated by the FBI until after January 6 is an “additional piece of information that congressional investigators in particular on the January 6th committee and the other Homeland Security committees should be looking at to determine whether or not the FBI...2022 October 4, Hannah Rabinowitz, Holmes Lybrand, “Secret recording played at trial shows Oath Keepers allegedly planning for violence in DC”, in CNN
Adjective (2) capitalized: Congressional
IPA/kəŋˈɡɹɛʃn̩əl/
Congressional (comparative more Congressional, superlative most Congressional)
- Of or pertaining to the United States Congress.
congressional meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Gujarati and Vietnamese
congressional in Bengali
- কংগ্রেসনাল
congressional in Malayalam
- പ്രതിനിധി സഭാസംബന്ധമായ
congressional in Gujarati
- કોંગ્રેસનલ
congressional in Vietnamese
- of or relating to a congress
- quốc hội
Examples of congressional in a sentence
- Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions.
- Adam Schiff, a key lawmaker in Democrats’ congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump during his presidency.
- Back in Thailand, meantime, the CIA felt relatively little heartburn over the congressional rebuff.
Forms of congressional
| comparative | more congressional |
|---|---|
| superlative | most congressional |
| comparative | more Congressional |
| superlative | most Congressional |
Origin of congressional
From congression + -al.
Words formed from congressional
- congressional delegation
- congressional district
- congressional fellow
- congressionally
- precongressional
- uncongressional
Phrases with congressional
Questions about congressional
- What does congressional mean?
- Congressional means of or relating to a congress.
- What is congressional in Bengali?
- Congressional in Bengali is কংগ্রেসনাল. See Congressional meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is congressional?
- Congressional is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce congressional?
- Congressional is pronounced /kəŋˈɡɹɛ.ʃə.nəl/.
Words near congressional in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: congressional (page history and authors); Congressional (page history and authors); congressional (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); congressional (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); congressional (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.
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