cardinal

cardinal is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
2. adjective. One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
3. adjective. A woman's short cloak with a hood.
4. adjective. Mulled red wine.
5. noun. crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male

   Synonyms: redbird

6. noun. a variable color averaging a vivid red

   Synonyms: carmine

7. noun. (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
8. noun. the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
9. adjective. serving as an essential component

   "a cardinal rule"

   "the central cause of the problem"

   Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal

10. adjective. being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order

    "cardinal numbers"

Synonyms

redbird, carmine, central, fundamental, key, primal

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cardinal:

clarinda

Common word forms

cardinals, cardinally, cardinality

Words from these letters

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