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subcultural

subcultural adjective: pertaining to a subculture, or to subcultures in general.

Adjective

subcultural (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a subculture, or to subcultures in general.
    • A sub-cultural style or artifact, when adopted by the mainstream, loses its singularity. Once bell-bottoms became fashionable they were no longer a "gay style."1980 August 16, Michael Bronski, “Does Life Incriminate Art?”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 10

Origin of subcultural

From sub- + cultural.

Words formed from subcultural

Questions about subcultural

What does subcultural mean?
Subcultural means pertaining to a subculture, or to subcultures in general.
What part of speech is subcultural?
Subcultural is an adjective.

Words near subcultural in the dictionary

  1. subcultivations
  2. subcultrate
  3. subcultrated
  4. subcults
  5. subculturable
  6. subcultural
  7. subcultural capital
  8. subculturalist
  9. subculturalists
  10. subculturally
  11. subculture

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