adjective

procedural

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adjective

Relating to the method or steps used to do something, rather than the result itself.

"The complaint was dismissed on procedural grounds, not because it lacked merit."

"She raised a procedural objection about how the vote was conducted."

Generated automatically by a set of rules or an algorithm rather than hand-designed.

"The game world is built from procedural generation, so no two maps look the same."

How to Use Procedural

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishTo do with the steps or rules for doing something, not the outcome.

Common pairings

procedural grounds procedural generation procedural error

more procedural comparative, most procedural superlative

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The complaint was dismissed on _____ grounds, not because it lacked merit.

From procedure + the adjective-forming suffix -al.

rural mural plural neural natural cultural epidural subdural guttural unnatural inaugural structural