Adjective: integral
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more integral |
| Superlative | most integral |
Sample Sentences
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Ceasing to do evil, and doing good, are the two great integral parts that complete this duty. [1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:]
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When the verdict comes down, the transformation of the wunderkind founder of Theranos from black-clad genius to besuited milquetoast will be an integral part of the story. [2021 December 17, Vanessa Friedman, “The Verdict on the Elizabeth Holmes Trial Makeover”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2022:]
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A local motion keepeth bodies integral. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like integral
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
Borrowed from Middle French integral, from Medieval Latin integrālis, from Latin integer (“entire”); see integer. See: Latin Adjectives '
integer'.
Verbs referencing "integral"
Finnish Adjectives
integraalinen.