Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (4)
1.
of or relating to or resulting from industry;
- Example: "industrial output"2.
having highly developed industries;
- Example: "the industrial revolution"- Example: "an industrial nation"3.
employed in industry;
- Example: "the industrial classes"- Example: "industrial work"4.
suitable to stand up to hard wear;
- Example: "industrial carpeting"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Industrial \In*dus"tri*al\, a. [Cf. F. industriel, LL.
industrialis. See Industry.]
Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts
and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor,
especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and
rights.
[1913 Webster]
The great ideas of industrial development and economic
social amelioration. --M. Arnold.
[1913 Webster]
Industrial exhibition, a public exhibition of the various
industrial products of a country, or of various countries.
Industrial school, a school for teaching one or more
branches of industry; also, a school for educating
neglected children, and training them to habits of
industry.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
blue-collar \blue-collar\ adj.
1. of or designating work or workers in industry not
requiring well-groomed appearance. [Narrower terms:
industrial] white-collar
[WordNet 1.5]
2. of those who work for wages especially manual or
industrial laborers. [Narrower terms: lower-class,
low-class]
Syn: propertyless, wage-earning, working-class.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
industrial
adj 1: of or relating to or resulting from industry; "industrial
output"
2: having highly developed industries; "the industrial
revolution"; "an industrial nation" [ant: nonindustrial]
3: employed in industry; "the industrial classes"; "industrial
work"
4: suitable to stand up to hard wear; "industrial carpeting"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "industrial":
business, commercial, creational, executional, fabricational,
formational, functional, manufacturing, mercantile, merchant,
official, pro, productional, professional, retail, technical,
trade, trading, vocational, wholesale