environmental

English

Etymology

environment +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

environmental (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the environment.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.

Derived terms

• agro-environmental
• antienvironmental
• bioenvironmental
• environmental assessment
• environmental audit
• environmental ethics
• environmentalism
• environmentalist
• environmentally
• environmental protection
• environmental racism
• environmental refugee
• environmental science
• environmental scientist
• geoenvironmental
• macroenvironmental
• microenvironmental
• nonenvironmental
• paleoenvironmental
• socioenvironmental

 

Translations

pertaining to the environment

• Catalan: ambiental (ca), mediambiental (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環境的／环境的 (zh), 环境的 (zh) (huánjìng de)

• Finnish: ympäristöllinen; ympäristö- (fi), ympäristön- (fi) (in compounds)
• French: environnemental (fr)
• German: Umwelt- (de)
• Greek: περιβαλλοντικός (el) (perivallontikós)
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• Italian: ambientale (it)
• Norman: envithonnementa
• Portuguese: ambiental (pt)
• Russian: относя́щийся к окружа́ющей среде́ (otnosjáščijsja k okružájuščej sredé), экологи́ческий (ru) (ekologíčeskij)
• Spanish: ambiental
• Swedish: miljö-, miljömässig