About The Word Conditional
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Conditional
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What's The Definition Of Conditional?
[adj] imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid"
[adj] qualified by reservations Synonyms | Synonyms for Conditional: contingent | contingent on(p) | contrary to fact | counterfactual | dependant | dependant on(p) | dependent | dependent on(p) | depending on(p) | probationary | provisional | provisionary | provisory | qualified | tentative Related Terms | Find terms related to Conditional: a fortiori | a posteriori | a priori | acceptable | accidental | adventitious | aleatory | analytic | at issue | casual | categorical | circumstantial | conditioned | condonable | contingent | deductive | defensible | dependent | depending | dialectic | discursive | enthymematic | epagogic | excusable | fixed | formal | fortuitous | given | hypothetical | iffy | in question | in suspense | in the balance | incidental | inductive | inessential | inferential | limited | maieutic | modal | modified | nonessential | obscure | occasional | open | pendent | pending | problematic | provisional | provisory | qualified | questionable | relative | reliant | restricted | soritical | specificative | specified | stated | stipulated | stipulatory | suspenseful | syllogistic | synthetic | tenable | tentative | tolerable | uncertain | uncounted | undecided | undetermined | unessential | unestablished | unfixed | unsettled | untold | up for grabs | vindicable | warrantable See Also | Conditional In Webster's Dictionary \Con*di"tion*al\, a. [L. conditionalis.]
1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or
conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain
terms; as, a conditional promise.
Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be
made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional
punishment annexed and declared. --Bp.
Warburton.
2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as,
a conditional word, mode, or tense.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the
dependence of one categorical proposition on
another. --Whately.
The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
used synonymously. --J. S. Mill.
\Con*di"tion*al\, n. 1. A limitation. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition. Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. --L. H. Atwater. |
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