procedural

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 4.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Related to procedure.

   The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.

2. adjective Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.

   a procedural texture

3. noun A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
4. noun Ellipsis of police procedural.

Similar words

adjective procedure methodological how-to process formal order regulatory substantive practice

Often followed by

rules and requirements due safeguards justice knowledge law matters fairness

Word family

procedurally procedurals procedure procedures proceed proceeded proceeding proceedings proceeds