Words that rhyme with regional

• abdominal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or near the abdomen; "abdominal muscles" n 1: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab]
• aboriginal 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia; "an Aboriginal rite" 2: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia" [syn: native, aboriginal] [ant: nonnative] 3: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial] n 1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine] 2: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal]
• additional 0
  adj 1: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes" [syn: extra, additional]
• annul 0
  v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate] 2: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate]
• arsenal 0
  n 1: all the weapons and equipment that a country has [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 2: a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 3: a place where arms are manufactured [syn: armory, armoury, arsenal]
• attitudinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to attitudes
• cardinal 0
  adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal] 2: being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" [ant: ordinal] n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes 2: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number, cardinal] 3: a variable color averaging a vivid red [syn: cardinal, carmine] 4: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male [syn: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird]
• communal 0
  adj 1: for or by a group rather than individuals; "dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew"- Paul Roche; "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared"; "a group effort" 2: relating to a small administrative district or community; "communal elections in several European countries"
• conditional 0
  adj 1: qualified by reservations 2: imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid" [ant: unconditional, unconditioned]
• confessional 0
  n 1: a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
• conventional 0
  adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: unconventional] 2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: conventional, established] 3: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear] 4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional] 5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: conventional, formal, schematic] 6: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake" 7: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: ceremonious, conventional]
• coronal 0
  n 1: flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes [syn: wreath, garland, coronal, chaplet, lei]
• correctional 0
  adj 1: concerned with or providing correction; "a correctional institution"
• criminal 0
  adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious] 2: guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man" 3: involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn: criminal, felonious] n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
• delusional 0
  adj 1: suffering from or characterized by delusions
• devotional 0
  adj 1: relating to worship; "a devotional exercise" n 1: a short religious service
• diagonal 0
  adj 1: connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face; "a diagonal line across the page" 2: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping] n 1: (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent 2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias] 3: an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals" 4: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry 5: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]
• dimensional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to dimensions 2: having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person; "never matures as a dimensional character; he is pasty, bland, faceless"- Norman Cousins
• directional 0
  adj 1: relating to or indicating directions in space; "a directional microphone" [ant: omnidirectional] 2: relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal; "he tried to explain the directional trends of modern science" 3: showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn: directing, directional, directive, guiding]
• disciplinal 0
  adj 1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]
• dismantle 0
  v 1: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put up, raise, rear, set up] 2: take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together] 3: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: strip, dismantle]
• divisional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a military division; "divisional artillery" 2: serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line between two states" 3: constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit; "American divisional (fractional) coins include the dime and the nickel"; "fractional currency is currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit"
• doctrinal 0
  adj 1: relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine; "quibbling over doctrinal minutiae"
• dull 0
  adj 1: lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" [ant: lively] 2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant: bright] 3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened] 4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] 5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" 6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant: sharp] 7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish] 9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" [ant: sharp] 10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather 11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding] 12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden] v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" 2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" 3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down] 4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull] 5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen] 6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull] 7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
• empanel 0
  v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel, impanel] 2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn: empanel, impanel, panel]
• flannel 0
  n 1: a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing 2: bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body [syn: washcloth, washrag, flannel, face cloth] 3: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine, tweed, white]
• gull 0
  n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug] 2: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull] v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool] 2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
• inguinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or near the groin
• isochronal 0
  adj 1: equal in duration or interval; "the oscillations were isochronal" [syn: isochronal, isochronous]
• marginal 0
  adj 1: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach" [syn: fringy, marginal] 2: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability" [syn: borderline, marginal] 3: just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory" [syn: bare(a), marginal] 4: producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"
• neuronal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to neurons; "neural network" [syn: neural, neuronal, neuronic]
• null 0
  adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void] n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
• occasional 0
  adj 1: occurring from time to time; "took an occasional glass of wine" 2: occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" [syn: episodic, occasional] 3: occurring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker" [syn: casual, occasional] 4: recurring or reappearing from time to time; "periodic feelings of anxiety" [syn: periodic, occasional]
• original 0
  adj 1: preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement" 2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" 3: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal] 4: not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French" n 1: an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy, original] 2: something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; "this painting is a copy of the original" [syn: original, archetype, pilot]
• provisional 0
  adj 1: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule" [syn: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative]
• urinal 0
  n 1: a plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate
• virginal 0
  adj 1: characteristic of a virgin or virginity; "virginal white dresses" 2: untouched or undefiled; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage"- L.P.Smith 3: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous] n 1: a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries [syn: virginal, pair of virginals]
• impanel 0
  v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel, impanel] 2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn: empanel, impanel, panel]
• veronal 0
  n 1: a barbiturate used as a hypnotic [syn: barbital, veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea]
• aberrational 0
• depositional 0
• disannul 0
• binational 0
• mcdanel 0
• petronel 0
• collisional 0
• erosional 0
• equational 0

See also regional definition and regional synonyms