environmental en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ənˌvaɪ.ɚnˈmɛn.təl/ (US)
- /ɪnˌvaɪ.ɹə(n)ˈmɛn.təl/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle French environnementbor. English environment English -al English environmental From environment + -al.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Pertaining to the environment.
That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
-
(not-comparable) Environmentally friendly.
Because consumers who are buying such productss cannot fully internalize the external utility of their purchase, prices for environmental products and other environmental innovations may be insufficiently high to cover their costs ( Kaas, 1993; Cleff and Rennings, 1999).
2000, Henk Folmer, H. Landis Gabel, Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics, page 365:
Deriveds
geoenvironmental · environmental impact statement · environmental ethics · environmental audit · environmental science · environmentally · environmentalism · agro-environmental · palaeoenvironmental · environmentalist · nonenvironmental · environmental assessment · environmental refugee · proenvironmental · hydroenvironmental · coenvironmental · environmental storytelling · environmental dependency syndrome · bioenvironmental · environmental DNA · antienvironmental · socioenvironmental · environmental protection · environmental racism · paleoenvironmental · multienvironmental · microenvironmental · macroenvironmental · environmental scientist · environmental migrant
Translations (29)
sv miljömässig (pertaining to the environment) · ru экологи́ческий (pertaining to the environment) · hsb wobswětowy (pertaining to the environment) · ca mediambiental (pertaining to the environment) · he סְבִיבָתִי (pertaining to the environment) · cmn 環境的 /环境的 (pertaining to the environment) · cs environmentální (pertaining to the environment) · ar بِيئِيّ (pertaining to the environment) · sv miljö- (pertaining to the environment) · nrf envithonnementa (pertaining to the environment) · el περιβαλλοντικός (pertaining to the environment) · da miljø- (pertaining to the environment) · sq mjedisor (pertaining to the environment) · ca ambiental (pertaining to the environment) · sw kimazingira (pertaining to the environment) · it ambientale (pertaining to the environment) · fr environnemental (pertaining to the environment) · de Umwelt- (pertaining to the environment) · sq ambiental (pertaining to the environment) · pl środowiskowy (pertaining to the environment) · fi ympäristön- (pertaining to the environment) · da miljømæssig (pertaining to the environment) · tr çevresel (pertaining to the environment) · fi ympäristö- (pertaining to the environment) · fi ympäristöllinen (pertaining to the environment) · es ambiental (pertaining to the environment) · pt ambiental (pertaining to the environment) · et keskkonna- (pertaining to the environment) · ru относя́щийся к окружа́ющей среде́ (pertaining to the environment)