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additional en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈdɪ.ʃə.nəl/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin additionalis. By surface analysis, addition + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Supplemental or added to something.
    • additional charge
    • additional resources
    • Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet. 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2014:
    • The hotel provided additional towels on request.
    • You may be charged an additional fee for late payment.
    • additional information
    • Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date. 1961 October 14, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

Forms

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add'l Abbr=Yes lexicographic

Antonyms

nonsupplementary

Deriveds

additionally · superadditional · additionality · nonadditional · additional accompaniment · additional time

Hypernyms

extrinsic

Hyponyms

subservient · accompanying · accessory · contributory · acceding

Synonyms

additional · subsidiary · accessive · additionary · supplemental · supplementary · accessional · suppletory · complemental · further · ascititious · adjunctive · extra · auxiliary

Translations (42)

nl bijkomend (Supplemental or added to) · eo aldona (Supplemental or added to) · hi अतिरिक्त (Supplemental or added to) · hu további (Supplemental or added to) · nl aanvullend (Supplemental or added to) · el επιπλέον (Supplemental or added to) · es extra (Supplemental or added to) · bn অতিরিক্ত (Supplemental or added to) · sh dodatan (Supplemental or added to) · ca addicional (Supplemental or added to) · es adicional (Supplemental or added to) · csm héj·i- (Supplemental or added to) · he נוֹסָף (Supplemental or added to) · bn নফল (Supplemental or added to) · cs dodatečný (Supplemental or added to) · mi āpiti (Supplemental or added to) · de zusätzlich (Supplemental or added to) · la additionalis (Supplemental or added to) · pt adicional (Supplemental or added to) · cy atodol (Supplemental or added to) · sa अधिक (Supplemental or added to) · mk дополнителен (Supplemental or added to) · fa اضافی (Supplemental or added to) · es de más (Supplemental or added to) · eo kroma (Supplemental or added to) · hu kiegészítő (Supplemental or added to) · be дадатко́вы (Supplemental or added to) · mi piripiri (Supplemental or added to) · fi lisä- (Supplemental or added to) · pl dodatkowy (Supplemental or added to) · gd a bharrachd (Supplemental or added to) · ro adițional (Supplemental or added to) · gl adicional (Supplemental or added to) · fr additionnel (Supplemental or added to) · grc ἐπίθετος (Supplemental or added to) · bg допълнителен (Supplemental or added to) · ru дополни́тельный (Supplemental or added to) · uk додатко́вий (Supplemental or added to) · it addizionale (Supplemental or added to) · hy լրացուցիչ (Supplemental or added to) · ar إِضَافِيّ (Supplemental or added to) · sv ytterligare (Supplemental or added to)

additional en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /əˈdɪ.ʃə.nəl/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (UK) audio
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin additionalis. By surface analysis, addition + -al.

Meanings

  1. Something added.
    • For having received, from my Lord, an Additional, of great Importance; which was, that Owen, of his own Accord, after Examination, should compare the Case of your Majesty, (if you were Excommunicate,) to the Case, of a Prisoner, Condemned at the Barr; which Additional was subscribed by one Witness; but yet I perceived it was spoken aloud, and in the Hearing of others; I presently sent down a Copy thereof […] 1614, Francis Bacon, “A Letter to the King touching Peacham’s Cause. January 27. 1614”, in Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works […] of Francis Bacon, London: William Lee, published 1657, page 49:
    • […] having been well vers’d in British Histories, and a singular lover of Antiquities, [he] made many additionals to the Historie of Cambria published by Dav. Powell […] 1692, Anthony à Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, London: Thomas Bennet, page 248:

Forms

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additionals Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

epi-