additional

English

Alternative forms

• add'l (abbreviation)

Etymology

addition +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɪʃənəl/

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Adjective

additional (not comparable)

1. Supplemental or added to something.
   • 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:

     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.

Derived terms

• additionally

Translations

Supplemental or added to

• Armenian: լրացուցիչ (hy) (lracʻucʻičʻ)
• Belarusian: дадатко́вы (dadatkóvy)
• Bulgarian: допълнителен (bg) (dopǎlnitelen)
• Catalan: addicional
• Central Sierra Miwok: héj·i-
• Czech: dodatečný (cs)
• Dutch: bijkomend (nl)
• Esperanto: kroma, aldona
• Finnish: lisä- (part of compound)
• French: additionnel (fr)
• Galician: adicional
• German: zusätzlich (de)
• Greek: επιπλέον (el) (epipléon)
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• Hebrew: נוֹסָף (nosaf)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: addizionale (it)
• Maori: piripiri, āpiti
• Persian: اضافی (fa)
• Polish: dodatkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: adicional (pt)
• Romanian: adițional (ro)
• Russian: дополни́тельный (ru) (dopolnítelʹnyj)
• Sanskrit: अधिक (sa) (adhika)
• Scottish Gaelic: a bharrachd
• Spanish: adicional (es), extra (es), de más
• Swedish: ytterligare (sv)
• Ukrainian: додатко́вий (dodatkóvyj)

Noun

additional (plural additionals)

1. Something added.
   • 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, 1657, p. 49,^[1]

     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 […]

   • 1692, Anthony à Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 248,^[2]

     […] 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 […]