Recessional (Adjective)
Meaning
Of or relating to receding.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The receding tide exposed a wide expanse of mudflats, a precarious habitat for the shorebirds that called it home during the recessional season.
- As the glacier retreated, it left behind a U-shaped valley, a testament to the receding action of ice over thousands of years.
- The community worked tirelessly to restore the damaged coastline, planting native vegetation to stabilize the eroding soil and slow the receding shoreline.
- Years of drought had caused the lake levels to drop dramatically, revealing a hidden landscape of rock formations and creating a receding coastline.
- In a last-ditch effort to slow the receding ice, scientists began using drones to pump sea water onto the glacier's surface and slow its melting.