Adjective: institutional
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more institutional |
| Superlative | most institutional |
Sample Sentences
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Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance. [2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 55, photo caption:]
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The main concerns for young Indonesians are quality of life, corruption, institutional integrity and the environment, including air pollution, said Abigail Limuria, co-founder of Bijak Memilih, an independent, youth-led movement providing information on political parties, issues and candidates to voters. [2024 February 11, Rachel Wilson and Rosa de Acosta, “How Indonesia’s future is in the hands of young voters, in 5 charts”, in CNN:]
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institutional ruling
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There must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism and its nature before it can be addressed [1999, William MacPherson, The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, Cm 4262-I, para 6.48]
Adjectives inflected like institutional
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From institution + -al.
Verbs referencing "institutional"
Finnish Adjectives
institutionaalinen.