Adjective: global
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more global |
| Superlative | most global |
Sample Sentences
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Pollution is a global problem.
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World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the War on Terror are global conflicts.
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Some rights are more global than others; social rights in particular do not seem to globalise easily. [2003, Catherine Dupré, Importing the law in post-communist transitions, page 169:]
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It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […]. [2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation isn't just about profits. It's about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2021, page 19:]
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The first account that is created when you sign up is the global Administrator. [2013 December 30, Matthew Katze, Don Crawford, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud, →ISBN, page 366:]
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Global variables keep support engineers employed.
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In the center was a small, global mass.
Adjectives inflected like global
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 globe + -al; compare French global. See: French Adjectives '
global'.
Verbs referencing "global"
Finnish Adjectives
globaali.