Crossword-Solution: SEMINAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Seminal | a. | Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid. |
| Seminal | a. | Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue. |
| Seminal | n. | A seed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SEMINAL | anagram | ISLEMAN, MALINES, MENIALS |
We have 24 clues for the answer “SEMINAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Influential – in males (anag) | 1 answer |
| Original and influential | 1 answer |
| Notably influential | 1 answer |
| Important by virtue of original influence (in an uncomfortably patriarchal phrasing) | 1 answer |
| Highly original and influential | 1 answer |
| Highly influential | 1 answer |
| Groundbreaking, in a way | 1 answer |
| Germinative | 1 answer |
| Crucially influential | 1 answer |
| Highly original | 2 answers |
| Highly innovative | 2 answers |
| Pioneering | 3 answers |
| Groundbreaking | 8 answers |
| ANY INFLUENTIAL PERSON WHOSE ADVICE IS HIGHLY RESPECTED | 10 answers |
| AND ORIGINAL INFLUENTIAL GROUP | 10 answers |
| AND INFLUENTIAL ORIGINAL | 10 answers |
| Germinal | 11 answers |
| Formative | 15 answers |
| originative | 51 answers |
| influential | 52 answers |
| Innovative | 58 answers |
| important person | 67 answers |
| Primary | 83 answers |
| Original | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SEMINAL (5)
Though the seminal humour seems of a contrary nature to fire, yet the body completed proves a combustible lump, wherein fire finds flame even from bones, and some fuel almost from all parts; though the metropolis of humidity[BC] seems least disposed unto it, which might render the skulls of these urns less burned than other bones.
Partridge describes a man of twenty-four who, notwithstanding his condition, gave evidences of virile seminal flow.
The artist himself was at that time busy upon two great designs; the first, to sow land with chaff, wherein he affirmed the true seminal virtue to be contained, as he demonstrated by several experiments, which I was not skilful enough to comprehend.
The case stands thus: in my next book I shall publish long chapters on bud- and seminal-variation, on inheritance, reversion, effects of use and disuse, etc.
With his seminal work on fuzzy sets, Lotfi Zadeh opened a new perspective relevant not only to technological progress, but also to a new philosophic perspective.
Quotes with SEMINAL (3)
Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scienti…
Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.
Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the Devouring Void for the Seminal Light. Earthly Women and the Muses are ancient, sworn enemies. The battlefield is the Creative Male. On the one side is the encampment of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus located in his Heart and in his Groin. On the other is the Bastion of Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, in his Brain and in his…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 35 times in crossword archives (1976–2025).