communicational

adjective

com·​mu·​ni·​ca·​tion·​al kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈkā-shnəl 

-shə-nᵊl

: of or relating to communication

The sales manager position requires strong communicational skills.

a communicational disorder

communicational difficulties

… all of the non-English borrowings are from Western languages already endowed with significant cultural prestige: evidently, globalization has not yet produced a communicational currency which bases itself as heavily upon Japanese, say, or Mandarin as upon French.

—Andrew Dix, Style, Spring 2009

: serving to convey information

Doubtless, too, translation today is one of the communicational lifelines of our global village.

—Roy Harris, The Times Literary Supplement (London), 28 Aug. 1987

To create a more audience-friendly play from original Shakespearean texts, each theater company will focus on replacing the highly verbal original plays with nonverbal communicational tools such as dance, mime and even acrobatic movements.

—The Korea Times, 22 Mar. 2004

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for communicational

• associational
• civilizational
• coeducational
• configurational
• consociational
• denominational
• improvisational
• investigational
• organizational
• orientational
• preoperational
• representational