Vocabulary
Seminal
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
strongly influencing later developments.
Urdu meaning
بنیادی، بیج سے متعلق، نطفے
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Takshashila and Nalanda are legendary students came from afar to study, the number of luminaries produced was legion, and seminal ideas were disseminated far and wide.
- WE are at a turning point of regional and global history because of several seminal developments.
- Though White played a seminal role, the dollar was bound to become dominant as the US was economically the most powerful country at the end of World War H.
- Drawing on Edward Said`s seminal 1978 work Orientalism, the East has often been portrayed as exotic, inferior, static or unchanging, and in need of Western guidance or control to foster `progress`.
- In his seminal book Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice, Galula emphasises that military force must be subordinate to political objectives.
Synonyms
influential, formative, groundbreaking, pioneering, original, creative, innovative
Antonyms
irrelevant, unimportant
Curator example
“his seminal work on chaos theory”
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