Definitions for seminal

seminal sem·i·nal

Spelling: [sem-uh-nl]
IPA: /ˈsɛm ə nl/

Seminal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 340 anagrams from letters in seminal (aeilmns).

Definitions for seminal

adjective

  1. pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
  2. Botany. of or relating to seed.
  3. having possibilities of future development.
  4. highly original and influencing the development of future events:

Origin of seminal

1350-1400; Middle English Latin sēminālis, equivalent to sēmin- (stem of sēmen) seed, semen + -ālis -al1

Examples for seminal

seminal dreams were accompanied by the idea of contact with a woman.

It might be objected that the (seminal) reasons might suffice.

The soul and the (seminal) reasons therefore possess no extension.

This, like the others, is a sub-variety, and probably but a seminal variation.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century is already being hailed as a seminal work of economic thought, and with very good reason.

As a college student, I remember reading his seminal book, The Selfish Gene, with an equal measure of acceptance and despair.

Even the seminal powers bear the impress of this universality.

His Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the seminal war memoirs of this or any time.

In the long sweep of LGBT equality, it could have stood as a seminal moment.

[the seminal pulp crime magazine which first published Hammett].

Word Value for seminal
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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