Definition of universal
Adjectives
of worldwide scope or applicability
"universal experience"
- Synonyms:
- cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, world-wide, worldwide
-
comprehensive
including all or everything
applicable to or common to all members of a group or set
"the play opened to universal acclaim"
"rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"
- Synonyms:
-
general
applying to all or most members of a category or group
adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
"universal wrench", "universal chuck"
"universal screwdriver"
- Synonyms:
-
adaptable
capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use
Nouns
(linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages
- Synonyms:
- linguistic universal
- Type of:
-
linguistic rule, rule
(linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice
(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
- Synonyms:
- universal proposition
- Antonyms:
-
particular proposition
(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
- particular
-
particular
(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a class
- show more antonyms...
- Type of:
-
proposition
(logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false
a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings
"some form of religion seems to be a human universal"
- Type of:
-
convention, formula, normal, pattern, rule
something regarded as a normative example
coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
"in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps"
- Synonyms:
- universal joint
Vocabulary Lists for universal
- acrid
- acute
- affix
- air
- ala
Words that contain universal
coordinated universal time
linguistic universal
universal agent
universal donor
universal gas constant
universal gravitational constant
universal joint
Universal Product Code
universal proposition
universal quantifier
universal resource locator
universal set
universal solvent
universal suffrage
universal time
universal veil
universalise
universalism
universalist