industrial

Syllables: in·du·stri·alUK/ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/

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industrial adjective: of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing. Also the ellipsis of industrial music.

Adjective

industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)

Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
- The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.
- Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of...2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 29
Produced by such industry.
- Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.
Used by such industry.
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
- This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.
Massive in scale or quantity.
Employed as manpower by such industry.
- Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill
Having many industries; industrialized.
- Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.
- Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023
Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
- a track with clashing industrial beats

Noun

industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)

(dated, obsolete) An employee in industry.
An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
A bond or stock issued by such a company.
- A very short time later a terrible line in a financial daily—"Consols weak"—caught his agitated eye. Consols were precipitately abandoned and a "sound industrial" took their place.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
- Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off

Proper noun capitalized: Industrial

Industrial

An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States.
A township in Saginaw, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Also used as

industrial is also the ellipsis of industrial music.

industrial is also the ellipsis of industrial piercing.

industrial meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

industrial in Hindi

of or relating to industry: औद्योगिक audyogik
(of a society or country) having many industries: औद्योगिक audyogik

industrial in Tamil

enterprise: தொழில்சார் toḻilcār

industrial in Marathi

of or relating to industry: औद्योगिक audyogik

industrial in Urdu

of or relating to industry: صَنْعَتی san'atī

More languagesFewer languages

industrial in Telugu: పారిశ్రామిక
industrial in Malayalam: വ്യാവസായിക vyāvasāyika
industrial in Kannada: ಕೈಗಾರಿಕಾ
industrial in Punjabi: ਸਨਅਤੀ
industrial in Gujarati: ઔદ્યોગિક
industrial in Odia: ଔଦ୍ଯ଼ୋଗିକ
industrial in Nepali: औद्योगिक
industrial in Tagalog: kalalangin
industrial in Arabic: صِنَاعِيّ ṣināʕiyy

Examples of industrial in a sentence

They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
The office was now large enough to need an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.
It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength.

All 40 example sentences with industrial

Antonyms of industrial

Forms of industrial

Adjective
comparative	more industrial
superlative	most industrial
Noun
plural	industrials

Origin of industrial

From French industriel. By surface analysis, industry + -al.

Words formed from industrial

Questions about industrial

What does industrial mean?: Industrial means of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
What is industrial in Hindi?: Industrial in Hindi is औद्योगिक (audyogik). See Industrial meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is industrial?: Industrial can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce industrial?: Industrial is pronounced /ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/ (UK).

Words near industrial in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: industrial (page history and authors); Industrial (page history and authors); industrial (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); industrial (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); industrial (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); industrial (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); industrial (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); industrial (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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