Words that rhyme with preferential

• accentual 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to accent or stress 2: (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm" [ant: quantitative, syllabic]
• circumferential 0
  adj 1: lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts; "circumferential highways around cities"
• circumstantial 0
  adj 1: fully detailed and specific about particulars; "a circumstantial report about the debate"
• confidential 0
  adj 1: entrusted with private information and the confidence of another; "a confidential secretary" 2: (of information) given in confidence or in secret; "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications" [syn: confidential, secret] 3: denoting confidence or intimacy; "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice" 4: the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified
• consequential 0
  adj 1: having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision" [syn: consequential, eventful]
• consubstantial 0
  adj 1: regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity)
• credential 0
  n 1: a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts [syn: certificate, certification, credential, credentials]
• deferential 0
  adj 1: showing deference [syn: deferent, deferential, regardful]
• differential 0
  adj 1: relating to or showing a difference; "differential treatment" 2: involving or containing one or more derivatives; "differential equation" n 1: the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx [syn: derived function, derivative, differential coefficient, differential, first derivative] 2: a quality that differentiates between similar things 3: a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves [syn: differential gear, differential]
• essential 0
  adj 1: absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker" [syn: essential, indispensable] 2: basic and fundamental; "the essential feature" [ant: inessential, unessential] 3: of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence" [syn: all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)] 4: being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "essential oil" 5: defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; "substantive law" [syn: substantive, essential] [ant: adjective, procedural] n 1: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential, nonessential]
• eventual 0
  adj 1: expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating; "hope of eventual (or ultimate) rescue"; "if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market"
• evidential 0
  adj 1: serving as or based on evidence; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value" [syn: evidential, evidentiary]
• existential 0
  adj 1: derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey [syn: experiential, existential] 2: of or as conceived by existentialism; "an existential moment of choice" 3: relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
• experiential 0
  adj 1: relating to or resulting from experience; "a personal, experiential reality" 2: derived from experience or the experience of existence; "the rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers"- Benjamin Farrington; "formal logicians are not concerned with existential matters"- John Dewey [syn: experiential, existential]
• exponential 0
  adj 1: of or involving exponents; "exponential growth" n 1: a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent [syn: exponential, exponential function]
• financial 0
  adj 1: involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility" [syn: fiscal, financial] [ant: nonfinancial]
• inconsequential 0
  adj 1: lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet" [syn: inconsequent, inconsequential] 2: not following logically as a consequence
• inessential 0
  adj 1: not basic or fundamental [syn: inessential, unessential] [ant: essential] 2: not absolutely necessary n 1: anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials" [syn: inessential, nonessential] [ant: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite]
• inferential 0
  adj 1: relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind" [syn: inferential, illative] 2: of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion 3: resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning" [syn: illative, inferential] 4: derived or capable of being derived by inference 5: based on interpretation; not directly expressed
• influential 0
  adj 1: having or exercising influence or power; "an influential newspaper"; "influential leadership for peace" [ant: uninfluential]
• insubstantial 0
  adj 1: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial] 2: lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor" [syn: insubstantial, jejune]
• jurisprudential 0
  adj 1: relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws
• nonessential 0
  adj 1: not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA [syn: incidental, nonessential] n 1: anything that is not essential; "they discarded all their inessentials" [syn: inessential, nonessential] [ant: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite]
• penitential 0
  adj 1: showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears"; "wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words" [syn: penitential, penitentiary]
• pestilential 0
  adj 1: likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers" [syn: pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey]
• potential 0
  adj 1: existing in possibility; "a potential problem"; "possible uses of nuclear power" [syn: potential, possible] [ant: actual, existent] 2: expected to become or be; in prospect; "potential clients" [syn: likely, potential] n 1: the inherent capacity for coming into being [syn: potential, potentiality, potency] 2: the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts [syn: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage]
• presidential 0
  adj 1: relating to a president or presidency; "presidential aides"; "presidential veto" 2: befitting a president; "criticized the candidate for not looking presidential" [ant: unpresidential]
• providential 0
  adj 1: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery" [syn: heaven-sent, providential, miraculous] 2: relating to or characteristic of providence; "assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen 3: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine]
• provincial 0
  adj 1: of or associated with a province; "provincial government" 2: characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" [ant: cosmopolitan] n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials" 2: a country person [syn: peasant, provincial, bucolic]
• prudential 0
  adj 1: arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters; "he abstained partly for prudential reasons"
• quintessential 0
  adj 1: representing the perfect example of a class or quality
• referential 0
  adj 1: referring or pointing to something; "symbols are inherently referential"
• residential 0
  adj 1: used or designed for residence or limited to residences; "a residential hotel"; "a residential quarter"; "a residential college"; "residential zoning" [ant: nonresidential] 2: of or relating to or connected with residence; "a residential requirement for the doctorate"
• reverential 0
  adj 1: feeling or manifesting veneration [syn: respectful, reverential, venerating]
• sentential 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a sentence; "the sentential subject"
• sequential 0
  adj 1: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive]
• substantial 0
  adj 1: fairly large; "won by a substantial margin" [syn: significant, substantial] 2: having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable; "substantial equivalents" [syn: substantial, substantive] 3: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial] 4: providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day" [syn: hearty, satisfying, solid, square, substantial] 5: of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" [syn: solid, strong, substantial]
• tangential 0
  adj 1: of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn: digressive, tangential] 2: of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent; "tangential forces"
• torrential 0
  adj 1: relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent; "torrential erosion"; "torrential adaptations seen in some aquatic forms" 2: resembling a torrent in force and abundance; "torrential applause"; "torrential abuse"; "the torrential facility and fecundity characteristic of his style"- Winthrop Sargeant 3: pouring in abundance; "torrential rains"
• uncial 0
  adj 1: relating to or written in majuscule letters (which resemble modern capitals); "uncial letters" n 1: a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries
• unessential 0
  adj 1: not basic or fundamental [syn: inessential, unessential] [ant: essential]
• unsubstantial 0
  adj 1: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial]
• conventual 0
  adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]
• sapiential 0
  adj 1: characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God; "a sapiential government"
• coessential 0
• componential 0
• conferential 0
• intelligential 0
• interferential 0
• hentschel 0
• henschel 0
• chul 0
• cadential 0
• sciential 0

See also preferential definition and preferential synonyms