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procedural

  • /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/

adjective more procedural · most procedural

  1. Related to procedure. The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.
  2. Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed. a procedural texture

noun procedurals

  1. A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail. It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.
  2. abbreviation, ellipsis, specifically Ellipsis of police procedural The Wire, however, did not kill the procedural. The procedural simply borrowed The Wire’s aesthetic. The detectives may trudge sombrely from one improbable homicide scene to another, week in, week out, as the blue lights circle bleakly, but we, the viewers, sink gleefully into our sofas ready to dri

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Closest in meaning: adjective, procedure, methodological, how-to, process, formal, order, regulatory, substantive, practice, point, instrumental, administrative, trial, activity, legal

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adj related to procedure

Españolprocedimental
Portuguêsprocedimental
Françaisprocédural
Italianoprocedurale
Русскийпроцеду́рный procedúrnyj
Tiếng Việttheo thủ tục

adj generated by means of procedure

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@misc{procedural_2026,
  title = {procedural},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/procedural},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}