procedural
/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
noun
A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms."
- "An externment of a person is a harsh punishment on him and calls for procedural safeguards against the abuse of power by the authorities."
- "a procedural texture"
- "procedural terrain"
- "It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form."
- "David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman[…]"
Etymology
From procedure + -al.