sacrificial
/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.fɪʃ.əl/
sacrificial adjective: relating to sacrifice.
Adjective
sacrificial (not comparable)
- Relating to sacrifice.
- The old sacrificial well is still there, but animals aren't thrown into it to appease monsters anymore.
- Rabban Yoḥanan could have succumbed to despair like many at that time. Instead, he looked for alternatives to the sacrificial system, because he understood that it would take a long time to rebuild the Temple and the Jewish people needed other ways to worship God.2024, David Golinkin, “Comfort, Oh Comfort My People”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page x
- Used as a sacrifice.
- The sacrificial coating protects the hull, but because it takes the damage the hull doesn't, we must replace it annually.
- The ceremony involves the ritual slaying of a sacrificial lamb.
sacrificial meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Punjabi
sacrificial in Urdu
- قربانی کا
sacrificial in Bengali
- যজ্ঞীয়
sacrificial in Malayalam
- oblatory, votive, oblational
- യജ്ഞപരമായ, യജ്ഞസംബന്ധമായ, ബലിദാനത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, ബലിയ്ക്കുള്ള, കുരുതിക്കുള്ള, ബലിയർപ്പിക്കപ്പെട്ട
sacrificial in Punjabi
- ਬਲੀਦਾਨ ਦੇਣ ਵਾਲੀ, ਬਲੀਦਾਨ ਦੇਣ ਵਾਲਾ
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- sacrificial in Sanskrit
- अहर् áhar, यज्वन् yájvan
- sacrificial in Arabic
- تَضْحِيَة taḍḥiya, أُضْحِيَّة ʔuḍḥiyya, أَضَاحِيّ pl ذَبِيحَة ʔaḍāḥiyy, قُرْبَانِيّ qurbāniyy
Examples of sacrificial in a sentence
- If we accept a selfish gospel then we have no great motivation to engage with a discipled, sacrificial lifestyle.
- Immediately following the conclusion of the sacrificial(6) ceremony, the delegation from Kinmen boarded a chartered boat to Putien.
- The hide was probably that of a sacrificial animal.
Forms of sacrificial
| alternative form (obsolete) | sacrifical |
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Origin of sacrificial
Borrowed from Latin sacrificiālis (“sacrificial”), from sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrificus (“sacrificial”), from sacrificō (“sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faciō (“do, make”). By surface analysis, sacrifice + -ial.
Words formed from sacrificial
Phrases with sacrificial
Words that rhyme with sacrificial
- official
- superficial
- artificial
- judicial
- unofficial
- beneficial
- initial
- prejudicial
- adventitial
- comitial
- extrajudicial
- interstitial
16 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about sacrificial
- What does sacrificial mean?
- Sacrificial means relating to sacrifice.
- What is sacrificial in Urdu?
- Sacrificial in Urdu is قربانی کا. See Sacrificial meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is sacrificial?
- Sacrificial is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sacrificial?
- Sacrificial is pronounced /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.fɪʃ.əl/.
Words near sacrificial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sacrificial (page history and authors); sacrificial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sacrificial (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sacrificial (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sacrificial (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अहर् (Sanskrit) (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.
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