Universal
English
Adjective
Universal (comparative more Universal, superlative most Universal)
- Of or pertaining to the universe.
- Common to all members of a group or class.
- Common to all society; world-wide
- She achieved universal fame.
- Cosmic; unlimited; vast; infinite
- Useful for many purposes, e.g., universal wrench.
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Noun
Universal (plural Universals)- (philosophy) A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
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Adverbs for Universal
fundamentally; woefully; universally; significantly; strikingly; curiously; ominously; surprisingly; astonishingly; terribly.
Thesaurus
Berkeleianism, Geistesgeschichte, Hegelian idea, Hegelianism, Kantian idea, Kantianism, Neoplatonism, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Platonism, absolute, absolute idealism, accustomed, across-the-board, aggregate, all, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-out, all-pervading, allover, animatism, animism, archetype, average, blanket, born, boundless, broad, broad-based, catholic, clean, clear, common, commonplace, compendious, complete, complex idea, comprehensive, congenital, consummate, conventional, cosmic, cosmogonal, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmopolitan, countless, country-wide, current, customary, deep-dyed, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, ecumenic, ecumenical, egregious, encyclopedic, endless, entire, epidemic, eternal, eternal object, eternal universal, everyday, exemplar, exhaustive, exhaustless, extending everywhere, extensive, familiar, form, formal cause, galactic, general, generic, global, gross, habitual, heaven-wide, highest category, history of ideas, holistic, household, hylozoism, ideal, idealism, ideate, ideatum, idee-force, illimitable, illimited, immaterialism, immeasurable, immense, incalculable, inclusive, incomprehensible, inexhaustible, infinite, infinitely continuous, innate idea, innumerable, integral, integrated, intensive, interminable, interminate, international, limitless, measureless, metaphysical idealism, model, monistic idealism, national, no end of, nondenominational, nonsectarian, noosphere, normative, noumenon, omnibus, omnipresent, one, one and indivisible, ordinary, out-and-out, outright, over-all, pandemic, panoramic, panpsychism, pattern, percept, perfect, perpetual, personalism, pervasive, plain, planetary, plumb, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, prototype, psychism, pure, radical, regular, regulation, regulative first principle, sheer, shoreless, simple idea, solipsism, spiritualism, standard, stock, straight, subjectivism, subsistent form, sumless, sweeping, synoptic, termless, the Absolute, the Absolute Idea, the Self-determined, the realized ideal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, transcendent idea, transcendent nonempirical concept, transcendent universal, transcendental, ubiquitous, unbounded, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unfathomable, universal concept, universal essence, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unmitigated, unnumbered, unplumbed, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, untold, usual, utter, veritable, vernacular, whole, wholesale, wide-ranging, widespread, without bound, without end, without exception, without limit, without measure, without number, without omission, wonted, world-wide, worldwide
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)səl
Translations
Adjective
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External links
- Universal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Universal in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
External links
- S:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Universals
- The Medieval Problem of Universals - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Galician
Adjective
Universal m. and f. (plural universais)
- of or pertaining to the universe
- world-wide, universal, common to all cultures
Synonyms
- (world-wide): mundial
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Portuguese
Adjective
universal m. and f. (plural universais; comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the universe; universal.
- Common to all society; universal; world-wide.
- Common to all members of a group or class; universal.
Inflection
| singular | plural | |||
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| masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | |
| positive | universal | universais | ||
| comparative | mais universal | mais universais | ||
| superlative | o mais universal universalíssimo |
a mais universal universalíssima |
os mais universais universalíssimos |
as mais universais universalíssimas |
