institutional

Adjective
US[in-stih-too-shuh-nuhl]/ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəl/5 syllables
Synonyms: uninteresting

Open English WordNet

Adjective (3)

  1. relating to or constituting or involving an institution“institutional policy”Relating to establishment
  2. organized as or forming an institution“institutional religion”Opposite noninstitutionalSimilar institutionalized, uninteresting
  3. characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative“institutional food”Synonyms: uninterestingOpposite noninstitutional
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Translations

Adjective of pertaining to or characteristic of an institution

Portuguese
institucional
Turkish
kurumsal
Russian
институциона́льный institucionálʹnyj
10 more languages
Greek
θεσμικός thesmikós
Hungarian
intézményi
Portuguese (PT)
institucional
Hebrew
מוֹסָדִי mosadí

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

In′sti·tu′tion·al adjective

1. Pertaining to, or treating of, an institution or institutions; as, institutional legends.

Institutional writers as Rousseau.— John Stuart Mill

2. Instituted by authority.

3. Elementary; rudimental.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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