environmental

/ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/US/ənˌvaɪ.ɚnˈmɛn.təl/

environmental adjective: pertaining to the environment.

Adjective

environmental (not comparable)

Pertaining 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
Environmentally 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

Noun

environmental (plural environmentals)

Any 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

environmental meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

environmental in Tamil

சூழ்நிலைக்கான

environmental in Marathi

पर्यावरणीय, पर्यावरणविषयक

environmental in Urdu

ماحولیاتی

environmental in Bengali

পরিবেশগত

More languagesFewer languages

environmental in Telugu: పర్యావరణ
environmental in Malayalam: പാരിസ്ഥിതികം
environmental in Punjabi: ਵਾਤਾਵਰਣ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ
environmental in Gujarati: પર્યાવરણીય
environmental in Odia: ପରିବେଶଗତ
environmental in Nepali: वातावरणीय
environmental in Arabic: بِيئِيّ bīʔiyy

Examples of environmental in a sentence

One of the major upshots of prefab building is its decreased environmental impact.
The site required extensive environmental remediation before it could be used for other purposes.
His concern for the cause of environmental protection was very Washingtonian of him.

All 40 example sentences with environmental

Forms of environmental

plural	environmentals

Origin of environmental

From environment + -al.

Phrases with environmental

Words that rhyme with environmental

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Questions about environmental

What does environmental mean?: Environmental means pertaining to the environment.
What is environmental in Tamil?: Environmental in Tamil is சூழ்நிலைக்கான. See Environmental meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is environmental?: Environmental can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce environmental?: Environmental is pronounced /ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/ (UK).

Words near environmental in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: environmental (page history and authors); environmental (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); environmental (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); environmental (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); environmental (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); environmental (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); environmental (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); environmental (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); environmental (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); environmental (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); environmental (Nepali, 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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