cardinal

cardinal has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
• a.. One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
• a.. A woman's short cloak with a hood.
• a.. Mulled red wine.
• n.. crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
• n.. a variable color averaging a vivid red
• n.. (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
• n.. the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
• a.. serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
• a.. being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"