# agricultural

Pronunciation: US say "ag-ri-KUL-chur-uhl" /ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/; UK say "ag-ri-KUL-tyuur-uhl" /ˌæɡɹɪˈkʌltjʊəɹəl/

## Adjective

1. Relating to agriculture: to the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock.
   - Simple: Relating to farming, including growing crops and raising animals.
   - _The region's agricultural output rose sharply after the new irrigation system was built._
   - _Government subsidies support agricultural producers during a poor harvest._
3. Coarse or unrefined in manner; lacking sophistication or good taste. *(UK)*
   - Simple: Rough and rude in the way someone behaves or speaks.
   - _The critics dismissed his prose as agricultural, all bluntness and no finesse._
   - _She found his agricultural table manners hard to ignore at the gala._
4. Clumsy or tactless; carried out crudely and without finesse. *(UK)*
   - Simple: Clumsy and rough, done without skill or care.
   - _The defender's agricultural challenge earned him a yellow card._
   - _He played an agricultural shot, hacking the ball over the fielders._
5. Of a stroke, played with a wild, sweeping motion, as though swinging a scythe.
   - Simple: Hit with a wild, sweeping swing, like cutting tall grass with a blade.
   - _The tailender's agricultural heave cleared the boundary by some distance._
   - _He fell to an agricultural shot, missing a wild swing across the line._

## Noun

2. A product or commodity produced by farming, especially one traded as a good.
   - Simple: Something grown or raised on a farm and sold as a product.
   - _Corn remains the country's most valuable agricultural._
   - _Traders watched the prices of agriculturals climb steadily during the drought._

## Origin

Formed from "agriculture" combined with the suffix "-al".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/agricultural (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).