expediential

[ ik-spee-dee-en-shuhl ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or regulated by expediency.

expediential

/ ɪkˌspiːdɪˈɛnʃəl /

adjective

1. denoting, based on, or involving expediency

Derived Forms

• exˌpediˈentially, adverb

Other Words From

• ex·pedi·ential·ly adverb
• nonex·pedi·ential adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of expediential¹

First recorded in 1840–50; expedient + -ial

Example Sentences

"We are facing the risk again of expediential growth in Covid."

From BBC

"Clearly the international community - if the scenarios in climate change for the future come true - will face an expediential growth of these kinds of extreme events," he added.

From BBC

This great New England group might be enlarged perhaps without loss of quality by the inclusion of Thoreau, who came somewhat before his time, and whose drastic criticism of our expediential and mainly futile civilization would find more intelligent acceptance now than it did then, when all resentment of its defects was specialized in enmity to Southern slavery.

From Project Gutenberg

This great New England group might be enlarged perhaps without loss of quality by the inclusion of Thoreau, who came somewhat before his time, and whose drastic criticism of our expediential and mainly futile civilization would find more intelligent acceptance now than it did then, when all resentment of its defects was specialized in enmity to Southern slavery.

From Project Gutenberg

This great New England group might be enlarged perhaps without loss of quality by the inclusion of Thoreau, who came somewhat before his time, and whose drastic criticism of our expediential and mainly futile civilization would find more intelligent acceptance now than it did then, when all resentment of its defects was specialized in enmity to Southern slavery.

From Project Gutenberg