Word Meanings - CONDITIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 . . .

Additional info about word: CONDITIONAL

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. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONDITIONAL)

• Contingent
• Dependent
• incidental
• resultant
• co-emcient
• hypothetical
• uncertain
• conditional
• Provisional
• Conditional
• contingent
• temporary

Related words: (words related to CONDITIONAL)

• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• CONDITIONAL
  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 . . .
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• DEPENDENT
  1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• CONTINGENTLY
  In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
• INCIDENTAL
  Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious
• DEPENDENTLY
  In a dependent manner.
• PROVISIONALLY
  By way of provision for the time being; temporarily. Locke.
• CONDITIONALLY
  In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
• TEMPORARY
  Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief. Temporary government of the city. Motley. Temporary star. See under Star.
• CONTINGENTNESS
  The state of being contingent; fortuitousness.
• RESULTANT
  Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence. Resultant force or motion , a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more
• UNCERTAIN
  1. Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer. Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for. Tillotson. 2. Irresolute; inconsonant; variable;
• CONTEMPORARY
  1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees,
• INTERDEPENDENT
  Mutually dependent.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• EXTEMPORARY
  1. Extemporaneous. "In extemporary prayer." Fuller. 2. Made for the occasion; for the time being. "Extemporary habitations." Maundrell.
• INDEPENDENT
  Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents. (more info) 1. Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but
• SELF-DEPENDENT
  Dependent on one's self; self-depending; self-reliant.
• INDEPENDENTLY
  In an independent manner; without control.