Definition: 1. Done by or involving all the people in the world or in a particular group. 2. True or right at all times and in all places.
Use 'universal' in a sentence:
1. The rainbow is another ancient and universal symbol, often representing the connection between human beings and their gods.
2. It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.
3. He was probably right to intuit that it was universal.
4. Smiling is apparently a universal sign of friendliness and approval.
5. People don't speak one universal language, or even a handful.
6. This book has universal appeal.
7. It turns out that the expression of many emotions may be universal.
8. There are no economic universals.
9. Einstein's theory of relativity won for him universal esteem.
10. Several writers have posited the idea of a universal consciousness.
11. The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record.
12. The result has not met universal approbation.
13. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
14. This question must be brought up time and again in the hope of attracting universal attention.
15. While different cultures have different moral standards, some standards are universal.
16. As the originator of the theory of evolution, Darwin believed that the universal recognition of facial expressions would have survival value.
17. It's a universal truth.
18. Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry.
19. People don't speak one universal language or even a handful.
20. Smile is a universal language.
21. American artist Stephen Heigh sought to create a "universal image" with Jedi.
22. Perhaps it is the almost universal use of flavourings that makes it so hard to tell the products apart.
23. The insurance industry has produced its own proposals for universal health care.
24. Television offers universal entertainment.
25. Universal celebrations are held and the whole nation is in elation.
26. House price is a topic of universal interest.
27. Primary schooling became universal only in the 1990s.
28. Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle.
29. The universal bogey is AIDS.
30. Universal have agreed to pay £ 2.5 million for Grisham's next, as yet unwritten, novel.
31. It is their sensitive response to human circumstance that accounts for the persistence of certain universal ideas.
32. In the film, Po is finding his way home, which is very universal.
33. His action had been greeted with almost universal disapproval.
34. First of all we should make primary education universal.
35. Japan is a member to the Universal Postal Union.
36. There's a good explanation for the phenomenon in the book The Formula: The Universal Law of Success by Albert Laszlo Barabasi.
37. These laws are universal in their application, regardless of cultural beliefs, geography, or climate.
38. You may think that gift-giving is a universal custom.
39. So you may think that gift-giving is a universal custom.
40. The Universal Product Code symbol, also known as the 'bar code', is printed on products for sale and contains information that a computer can read.
41. The desire to look attractive is universal.
42. No kidding, it's not easy to get a universal instrument these days.
43. Above all, we intend to campaign for the universal adoption of sustainable and equitable lifestyles.
44. By 1920, Fox and Universal were already names to conjure with.
45. He became an object of universal derision.
46. The Universal Product Code symbol, also known as the ‘ bar code ’, is printed on products for sale and contains information that a computer can read.
47. The dove is a universal symbol of peace.
48. Shaking your head for 'No' is not universal.
49. Yet the talent flow isn't universal.
50. Such problems are a universal feature of old age.
51. He was an advocate of universal suffrage as a basis for social equality.
52. We communicated in a medley of foreign words and universal gestures.
