generational

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, pertaining to, or changing over generations. not-comparable
    — The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
  2. Exceptional; the best/worst of a generation; once-in-a-generation. informal,not-comparable
  3. Very good/bad (through semantic bleaching or weakening of the above sense). not-comparable
    — Mr Musk’s actions are worrying shareholders – a gesture he referred to as a “Roman salute” has not gone down well in Europe. In a recent survey of over 100,000 Germans, 94pc said they would never purchase a Tesla, while sales in their country were down 62pc during the first quarter of 2025 compared to the year before. … Gen Z investors on social media refer to errors like this as “a generational fumble”.

词汇关系

衍生词
bigenerational cross-generational extragenerational generational change generational conflict generational curse generational dynamics generationally generational planet generational wealth intergenerational intragenerational monogenerational multigenerational nongenerational Strauss-Howe generational theory transgenerational trigenerational unigenerational

词源

Etymology tree
English generation
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English generational
From generation + -al.
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