committal
/kəˈmɪtəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Of or relating to commitment.
Example Sentences
- "On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience."
- "He points out that the former hypothesis is less committal epistemically, and he claims that nothing more committal is required to make sense of scientific method."
- "Notice also that the credibility of noncommittal observational beliefs will compare in a similar way with the credibility of more committal (or theoretical) observational beliefs, such as belief that addition of a base solution to an acid solution (to take the more committal, or theoretical, version of the noncommittal observational belief just mentioned)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Latin committōbor. Middle English committen English commit Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English committal From commit + -al.
Usage
Inflected Forms
committals (plural)
commital (alternative)
more committal (comparative)
most committal (superlative)