'Conditional' definitions:
Definition of 'conditional'
From: WordNet
adjective
Qualified by reservations
adjective
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" [ant: unconditional, unconditioned]
Definition of 'Conditional'
From: GCIDE
- Conditional \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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. [1913 Webster]
- A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. --Whately. [1913 Webster]
- The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Conditional'
From: GCIDE
- Conditional \Con*di"tion*al\, n.
- 1. A limitation. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition. [1913 Webster]
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. --L. H. Atwater. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conditional'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Conditional'
- Condite,
- Condition,
- Conditionality,
- Conditionally,
- Conditioned,
- Conditioning,
- Conditionly,
- On condition,
- conditions,
- in condition,
- Condition precedent,
- Conditions of sale,
- Equation of condition,
- Equations of condition,
- In hard condition,
- Upon condition,
- air condition,
- air conditioning,
- atmospheric condition,
- aversive conditioning,
- boundary condition,
- classical conditioning,
- conditional contract,
- conditional probability,
- conditional reaction,
- conditional reflex,
- conditional relation,
- conditional response,
- conditional sale,
- conditioned avoidance,
- conditioned emotion,
- conditioned reaction,
- conditioned reflex,
- conditioned response,
- conditioned stimulus,
- control condition,
- counter conditioning,
- economic condition,
- environmental condition,
- essential condition,
- experimental condition,
- eye condition,
- financial condition,
- hereditary condition,
- instrumental conditioning,
- mental condition,
- meteorological conditions,
- mint condition,
- noise conditions,
- operant conditioning,
- physical condition,
- physiological condition,
- psychological condition,
- sanitary condition,
- ski conditions,
- toxic condition,
- weather condition,
- air-condition,
- air-conditioned,
- conditioned avoidance response,
- conditioned emotional response