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Definitions for additional
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. extra, additionaladjective

    further or added

    "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"

Wiktionary

  1. additionaladjective

    Supplemental or added to something.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Additionaladjective

    That which is added.

    Etymology: from addition.

    Our kalendar being once reformed and set right, it may be kept so, without any considerable variation, for many ages, by omitting one leap-year; i.e. the additional day, at the end of every 134 years. William Holder, on Time.

    The greatest wits, that ever were produced in one age, lived together in so good an understanding, and celebrated one another with so much generosity, that each of them receives an additional lustre from his cotemporaries. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

    They include in them that very kind of evidence, which is supposed to be so powerful; and do, withal, afford us several other additional proofs, of great force and clearness. Francis Atterbury, Serm.

ChatGPT

  1. additional

    Additional means something extra or supplementary to what is already present, involved, or exists. It often refers to extending or further contributing to something in quantity, quality, or degree.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Additionaladjective

    added; supplemental; in the way of an addition

  2. Additionalnoun

    something added

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'additional' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1419

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'additional' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1626

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'additional' in Adjectives Frequency: #166

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of additional in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of additional in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of additional in a Sentence

  1. Jen Psaki:

    There's not a day that goes by that I don't leave this podium and wish I would have said something with greater context or more precision or additional information. That day, there was a lot of good questioning on testing, and during that briefing I conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing about the 50 million tests, about the 20,000 free testing sides. And should I have included that additional context in that answer ? Yes.

  2. Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel:

    We need an additional 9,000 police in Germany, 25,000 new teachers and 15,000 daycare workers.

  3. School Superintendent Manny Caulk:

    We’ve already received suggestions of Thoroughbreds or Racers as possible alternatives, and we will solicit additional ideas from our students before they choose a horse-themed mascot grounded in the land’s equestrian heritage.

  4. Fred Ruffy:

    Overall, call buying seems to be driving a lot of the order flow in both names as players in the options market take positions in anticipation of additional upside for shares in the days/weeks ahead.

  5. President Biden:

    You know, there’s always a renewed national debate, every time we nominate, any president, nominates a justice, because the Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights, or curtailing rights, and it’s always an issue.

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