evolutionary
/ˌiː.vəˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi//ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/
evolutionary adjective: of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
Adjective
evolutionary (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
- The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.
- It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally...2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83
- Having formal similarities to the biological theory of evolution.
- The basic elements of an evolutionary growth theory are discussed in Section II.1974 Dec., Richard R. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter, “Neoclassical vs. Evolutionary Theories of Economic Growth: Critique and Prospectus”, in The Economic Journal, volume 84, number 336, →DOI, →JSTOR...
evolutionary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
evolutionary in Hindi
- of or relating to evolution
- क्रमविकासीय kramvikāsīya
evolutionary in Tamil
- சூழல் படிமலர்வுப் பொருத்தம்
evolutionary in Marathi
- उत्क्रांतीवादी, उत्क्रांतीशील
evolutionary in Urdu
- ارتقاء پسندانہ, ارتقائی
More languagesFewer languages
- evolutionary in Bengali
- বিবর্তনীয়, বিবর্তনমূলক, বিবর্তনবাদী
- evolutionary in Telugu
- పరిణామాత్మక, పరిణామాత్మకం
- evolutionary in Malayalam
- പരിണാമപരം
- evolutionary in Kannada
- ವಿಕಸನೀಯ, ವಿಕಾಸಾತ್ಮಕತೆ
- evolutionary in Gujarati
- ઉત્ક્રાંતિવાદી
- evolutionary in Odia
- ବିବର୍ତ୍ତନବାଦୀ, ବିବର୍ତ୍ତନମୂଳକ
- evolutionary in Vietnamese
- tiến hóa
Examples of evolutionary in a sentence
- His fingers were slender and delicate, an evolutionary advantage for a safecracker.
- The change would have been the result of microevolution, or an evolutionary change occurring within a species.
- Different studies indicate that they possess some evolutionary mechanisms to combat toxic situation.
Synonyms of evolutionary
Antonyms
Origin of evolutionary
From evolution + -ary.
Words formed from evolutionary
- antievolutionary
- anti-evolutionary
- bioevolutionary
- co-evolutionary
- coevolutionary
- ecoevolutionary
- eco-evolutionary
- evilutionary
- evolutionarily
- evolutionary adaptation
- evolutionary adaptedness
- evolutionary altruism
- evolutionary analysis
- evolutionary anthropologist
- evolutionary anthropology
- evolutionary basis
- evolutionary behavior
- evolutionary behaviour
- evolutionary biologist
- evolutionary biology
- evolutionary cause
- evolutionary center
- evolutionary centre
- evolutionary change
- evolutionary cladist
- evolutionary cladistics
- evolutionary convergence
- evolutionary creation
- evolutionary creationism
- evolutionary creationist
- evolutionary descent
- evolutionary developmental biology
- evolutionary divergence
- evolutionary ecologist
- evolutionary ecology
- evolutionary embryologist
- evolutionary embryology
- evolutionary ethicist
- evolutionary ethics
- evolutionary ethologist
- evolutionary ethology
- evolutionary genetics
- evolutionary psychologist
- evolutionary psychology
- evolutionary radiation
- evolutionary reconstruction
- evolutionary relation
- evolutionary relationship
- evolutionary research
- evolutionary researcher
- evolutionary science
- evolutionary scientist
- evolutionary selection
- evolutionary speciation
- evolutionary species
- evolutionary stage
- evolutionary stasis
- evolutionary status
- evolutionary structure
- evolutionary synthesis
Phrases with evolutionary
Questions about evolutionary
- What does evolutionary mean?
- Evolutionary means of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
- What is evolutionary in Hindi?
- Evolutionary in Hindi is क्रमविकासीय (kramvikāsīya). See Evolutionary meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is evolutionary?
- Evolutionary is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce evolutionary?
- Evolutionary is pronounced /ˌiː.vəˈl(j)uː.ʃən.ɹi/ (UK).
Words near evolutionary in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: evolutionary (page history and authors); evolutionary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); evolutionary (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evolutionary (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evolutionary (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evolutionary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evolutionary (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evolutionary (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evolutionary (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evolutionary (Odia, 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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