industrial

From French industriel. By surface analysis, industry +‎ -al.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdʌs.tɹi.əl/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɐs.tɹi.əl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ənˈdɐs.tɹi.əl/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɖɐs.ʈɾɪ.ɐl/
• Hyphenation: in‧du‧stri‧al

industrial (comparative more industrial, superlative most industrial)

1. Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.

   The industrial segment of the economy has seen troubles lately.

   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8842, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

   • 2016 November 18, Dan Simon, “Officers buy bike for teen who walked hours to work”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 21 November 2016:

     The sight of a teenager walking the small town's streets would usually go unnoticed, but to Benicia Police Cpl. Kirk Keffer, things didn't look right on the quiet street in the industrial part of town.

2. Produced by such industry.

   Handicraft is less standardized then industrial products, hence less artistic or rather flawless.

3. Used by such industry.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

4. Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.

   This is an industrial product—it's much too strong for home use.

5. Massive in scale or quantity.
6. Employed as manpower by such industry.
   • 1913, “There Is Power in a Union”, in Little Red Songbook, performed by Joe Hill:

     Come, all ye workers, from every land, / Come, join in the grand industrial band; / Then we our share of this earth shall demand.

7. (of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.

   Italy is a part-industrial, part-rural nation.

   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist‎^[3], volume 408, number 8845, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 March 2023:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

8. (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.

   a track with clashing industrial beats

• nonindustrial
• unindustrial

• industrious

industrial (countable and uncountable, plural industrials)

1. (dated, 19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.
2. (business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
3. (finance) A bond or stock issued by such a company.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     A very short time later a terrible line in a financial daily—"Consols weak"—caught his agitated eye. Consols were precipitately abandoned and a "sound industrial" took their place.

4. (film) A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.
   • 2012, Stuart J. Scesney, How to Enter the Business of Commercial Modeling and Acting Without Getting Ripped Off:

     Actor, director, and producer for three decades offers coaching and directing in scenes, improves, cold copy, script analysis, commercials, voice-overs, industrials, film, and stage.

5. (informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of industrial music.

   I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.

6. (informal) Ellipsis of industrial piercing.

• diurnalist

From indústria +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [in.dus.tɾiˈal]

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• Rhymes: -al

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industrials)

1. industrial

• industrialisme
• industrialista

• “industrial”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “industrial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “industrial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “industrial”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From industria +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtɾjal/ [in̪.d̪us̺ˈt̪ɾjɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧trial

industrial m or f (plural industriais)

1. industrial

• industrialismo
• industrialista

• “industrial”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English industrial.

• IPA^(key): /inˈdas.trjal/
• Rhymes: -astrjal
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

industrial m inan

1. (architecture) industrial architecture (objects of industrial and post-industrial architecture)
2. (art) industrial art (aesthetic current in art looking for inspiration in forms associated with industrial civilization)
3. industrial music (noisy, experimental genre of music with transgressive themes)

industrial m inan

1. (slang) industrial piercing (piercing, especially of the upper ear cartilage, in which two pierced holes are connected with a single straight piece of jewelry)

• “industrial”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “industrial”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

From indústria (“industry”) +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: in‧dus‧tri‧al

industrial m or f (plural industriais)

1. industrial

• industrialismo
• industrialista
• industrialmente

• “industrial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French industriel. By surface analysis, industrie +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtrjal/

industrial m or n (feminine singular industrială, masculine plural industriali, feminine/neuter plural industriale)

1. industrial

• industrialism

From industria +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtɾjal/ [ĩn̪.d̪usˈt̪ɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧trial

industrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural industriales)

1. industrial

• “industrial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025