additional

CEFRB1

/əˈdɪ.ʃə.nəl/

adjective

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

01
adjective
Extra; added to what is already present.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Something added.

Examples

The transport service cannot cope with the strain of so many additional passengers.
How much was the additional charge?

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 3
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 4
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

Supplemental or added to something.

More examples

In context

Our plan has many additional advantages.
additional charge
additional information

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

We needed to order an blank 50 chairs for the conference room.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

Nearby

Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

For having received, from my Lord, an Additional, of great Importance; which was, that Owen, of his own Accord, after Examination, should compare the Case of your Majesty, (if you were Excommunicate,) to the Case, of a Prisoner, Condemned at the Barr; which Additional was subscribed by one Witness; but yet I perceived it was spoken aloud, and in the Hearing of others; I presently sent down a Copy thereof […]
1614, Francis Bacon, “A Letter to the King touching Peacham’s Cause. January 27. 1614”, in Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works […] of Francis Bacon, London: William Lee, published 1657, page 49
[…] having been well vers’d in British Histories, and a singular lover of Antiquities, [he] made many additionals to the Historie of Cambria published by Dav. Powell […]
1692, Anthony à Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, London: Thomas Bennet, page 248
Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.
1961 October 26, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593
Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.
2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2014

Keep additional

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

Origin

adjective

Learned borrowing from Latin additionalis. By surface analysis, addition + -al.

Deep Dive

adjective

More examples

Related

Quick test

We needed to order an blank— 50 chairs for the conference room.

Nearby

Origin

adjective

We needed to order an blank 50 chairs for the conference room.