Ordinal Synonyms and Antonyms

ôrdn-əl
The number designating place in an ordered sequence
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ordinal number
  2. no
Being or denoting a numerical order in a series
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. cardinal

Words Related to Ordinal

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. countable
  2. transfinite
  3. arithmetic
  4. idempotent
  5. abelian

Ordinal Sentence Examples

  • On the whole, the ordinal use is perhaps the more common.

  • Enderlein has recently shown that the jaws of the Hemiptera can be recognized in a reduced condition in connexion with the louse's proboscis, the modification is so excessive that the group certainly deserves ordinal separation.

  • Instead of distinguishing the days by the ordinal numbers first,, second, third, &c., the Romans counted backwards from three fixed epochs, namely, the Calends, the Nones and the Ides.

  • There are, in addition, various other forms (Seroand Exo-sporidia), also primitive in character, but which are as yet too insufficiently known for it to be certain whether they are of distinct ordinal rank, or should be placed with the Haplosporidia.

  • One of the primary distinctions in the use of number is between ordinal and cardinal numbers, or rather between the ordinal and the cardinal aspects of number.

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