conditional
Plural: conditionals
Adjective Satellite
- 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"
Adj
- Limited by a condition.
- Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.
- Expressing a condition or supposition.
Noun
- A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
- The conditional mood.
- A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
- An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
- A condition (a limitation or restriction).
Examples
- "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
- "A implies B" is a conditional.
- a conditional word, mode, or tense
- I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
- if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.
Origin / Etymology
From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.
Synonyms
conditional, conditioned, contingent, if-then statement, in logic, limited, material conditional, qualified, relative
Antonyms
unconditional, absolute, categorical, unfettered, universal, unlimited
Scrabble Score: 14
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