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Synonyms for financial

  • adjective

Most common

fiscal monetary pecuniary

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Adjective

fiscal, pecuniary, monetary

Antonyms

nonfinancial

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Related to finances.

    For financial reasons, we're not going to be able to continue to fund this program.

Related words

Word family
findom finsub finances financier
Phrases
financial slave financial year acquiring financial institution financial cushion financial domination financial statement

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Financial, Pecuniary or Fiscal?

Financial applies especially to governmental revenues or expenditures, or to private transactions of considerable moment; we speak of a pecuniary reward, a financial enterprise; we give a needy person pecuniary (not financial) assistance. It is common to speak of the fiscal rather than the financial year.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • fiscal The fiscal deficit amounted to 11% of GDP in 2017.
  • monetary Yanni wrote a book about Algeria's monetary system.
  • pecuniary I'm suffering from pecuniary embarrassment.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
financialsteady
fiscalfalling
monetarysteady
pecuniaryfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

6 letters
fiscal2
8 letters
monetary4
9 letters
pecuniary5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fiscal2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
financier
Italiano
finanziario