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thingal

thingal adjective: belonging or pertaining to a thing or things; real.

Adjective

thingal (comparative more thingal, superlative most thingal)

  1. (rare) Belonging or pertaining to a thing or things; real.
    • [...] we apply thingal subjective conceptions. Our perceptions have a negation in them, they have not Being enough; to know the fact we must study by appropriate means, we must lay aside all these thingal idols of the mind; [...]1856, James Hinton, Selections from manuscripts: Volume 2
    • Indeed he possessed no true aesthetic feeling at all; there is probably not a single word in all that he wrote which indicates any sense of what he would probably call "thingal beauty".1884, George Croom Robertson, Mind Association, George Frederick Stout, Mind: Volume 9

Forms of thingal

comparativemore thingal
superlativemost thingal

Origin of thingal

From thing + -al.

Questions about thingal

What does thingal mean?
Thingal means belonging or pertaining to a thing or things; real.
What part of speech is thingal?
Thingal is an adjective.

Words near thingal in the dictionary

  1. thing of the past
  2. thing theory
  3. thing-in-itself
  4. thingabob
  5. thingabobs
  6. thingal
  7. thingamabob
  8. thingamabobber
  9. thingamabobbers
  10. thingamabobs
  11. thingamadoodle

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