Adjective: international
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more international |
| Superlative | most international |
Sample Sentences
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an international discussion
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an international competition
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Canada’s men’s hockey team defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime Thursday to capture the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship as the NHL put on a show in the first edition of this midseason international tournament. [2025 February 20, Homero De la Fuente, “Canada beats Team USA in overtime thriller to win hockey’s first-ever 4 Nations Face-off championship”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2025:]
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an international rule
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Principles of legiſlation in matters betwixt nation and nation, or, to uſe a new though not inexpreſſive appellation, in matters of international law. [[1780, Jeremy Bentham, “Preface”, in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, published 1789, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2026, page 6:]
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an international airport
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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 – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind. [2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:]
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The atmosphere is an international resource.
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the international community of scholars
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an international student
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The number of international players in the National Basketball Association has increased 10 percent from one year ago, the league said on Monday. [2014 October 27, Steve Ginsburg, “More international players than ever before, league says”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2015:]
Adjectives inflected like international
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér
4. Proto-Italic *n̥ter
5. Latin inter
6. Latin inter-bor.
7. English inter-
8. English national
9. English international
10. From inter- + national. Introduced in modern English by Jeremy Bentham in his An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1780.
Verbs referencing "international"
German Adjectives
international, Polish Adjectives
międzynarodowy, Finnish Adjectives
kansainvälinen, Dutch Adjectives
internationaal, Finnish Adjectives
internationaalinen, German Adjectives
zwischenstaatlich, Polish Adjectives
internacjonalny.