generational
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪʃənl/
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generacional
- The changes in technology have created significant generational gaps in communication styles.
- generational differences
- generational gap
- generational conflict
No trust funds, no generational wealth, no high paying job.
- No trust funds, no generational wealth, no high paying job.
- We could stop so much transfer of generational pain and suffering.
- You just need to share some of that generational wealth and stop voting.
- It's like we make a giant generational leap like that.
- And so this idea that wealth can be generational and be godly.
- I'm the byproduct of a generational curse being broken.
- So that's how I change the generational like norms that I've been chained to.
- Final question, put this in generational context.
- They, they wanted, they want them destined for generational poverty.
- Genius is not generational, it's a one generation outlier.
Examples
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We could stop so much transfer of generational pain and suffering.
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The presence of different generational groups within the learning environment has repercussions for identity naming.
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Do you know, I think it's probably a generational thing.
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Maybe it's a generational shift
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Let's talk about generational use of words.
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No trust funds, no generational wealth, no high paying job.
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Some people blame this problem on the shift in generational values.
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No, and perhaps in that generational divide lies an answer.
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We are living through one of the great generational shifts of the end consumers attention.
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Several families in this population had generational histories of mistrust of public education, particularly among urban Native American families.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
5
4.8
Having people from more than one generation living or working together
3
6.8
Relating to fairness or duties between older and younger people, often in public policy
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8.2
Affecting people in more than one generation of a family
How Generational
55
4.4
5
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
generational = generation (transparent) = generate + ion + al
The adjective is formed regularly from 'generation' plus '-al', and the relation to a generation is clear.
Etymology
Generational comes from generation, the same root as generate, which originally meant 'to produce' or 'give birth'. So, generational describes groups of people 'born around the same time' and the differences between those groups.