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condition

Syllables: con·dit·ion/kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

condition noun: a state or quality.

Noun

condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)

  1. A state or quality.
    • National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
    • The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
    Synonyms:
    way
    1. A particular state of being.
      • Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
      • Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
    2. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
      • A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
      • [T]his Zeal was now inflamed by Lady Bellaſton, who had told her the preceding Evening, that ſhe was well ſatiſfied from the Conduct of Sophia, and from her Carriage to his Lordſhip, that all Delays would be dangerous, and that the only Way to ſucceed, was to preſs the Match forward with ſuch...1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing Various Matters”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 142
    3. The health status of a medical patient.
      • My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
      • If the visual attention sequence of children with autism and TD children varied depending on the condition, we could argue that the inclusion of objects in the environment influences the visual attention patterns of both groups.2024 November 15, Işık Akın Bülbül, Selda Özdemir, “Evaluation of the Social Attention Hypothesis: Do Children with Autism Prefer to See Objects Rather than People?”, in Journal of Autism and...
    4. A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
      • While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.1997 April 7, Jonathan Rabinovitz, “Hearing Held on Bid to Repress Lawyers in Murder Case”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
  2. A requirement or prerequisite.
    • Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
    • The performance of managerial functions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition of belonging to the capitalist class.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in...
    Synonyms:
    requisite, necessity
  3. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
  4. A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

Verb

condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)

  1. To subject to the process of acclimation.
    • I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
    • Heat pumps condition the air on the first floor.
  2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
    • They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
  3. (transitive) To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
    • After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister's entreaties, and consented to go out […] She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits […]1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
  4. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
    • Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Golden Year”, in Poems. […], 4th edition, volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1846, →OCLC, page 89
  5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
    • The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
  6. (transitive) To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
    • Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to...1956 May, “Eliminating Slipping of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 280
  7. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
    • [P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.1633 May 21 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, James Shirley, “The Night-Walker, or The Little Thief. A Comedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn]...
    • [I]t was conditioned betweene Saturne and Titan, that Saturne being a yonger brother, and raigning (for his owne life), by Titans permiſſion, he ſhould put to death all his male children, leaſt the Titans might be interrupted by any of them in their ſucceſſion; which agreement becauſe Saturne...1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of Idolatrous Corruptions, Quickly Rising, and Hardly at Length Vanishing in the World: […]”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William...
  8. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
    • divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed1868, Once a Week
  9. (US, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
    • to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
  10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
    • "To think is thus to condition," because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.1882, John Veitch, “Classification of the Laws of Knowledge—Negative and Positive Thought—Relativity”, in Hamilton, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott and Co.; Edinburgh: W[illia]m...

condition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

condition in Hindi

health status of a patient
हालत hālat
state of an object
हालत hālat
logical clause or phrase
शर्त śart

condition in Tamil

state of an object
நிலை nilai

condition in Marathi

health status of a patient
स्थिती sthitī
state of an object
स्थिती sthitī

condition in Urdu

health status of a patient
حالَت hālat
state of an object
حالَت hālat
requirement or requisite
شَرْط śart
logical clause or phrase
شَرْط śart
More languagesFewer languages
condition in Bengali
শর্ত śorto
condition in Telugu
పరిస్థితి paristhiti, స్థితి sthiti
condition in Malayalam
ഉപാധി upādhi, സ്ഥിതി sthiti, ഇയൽ iyal, സംസാരം saṁsāraṁ
condition in Kannada
ಸ್ಥಿತಿ sthiti, ಮೀಸಲು mīsalu
condition in Punjabi
ਸੂਰਤ sūrat, رنگ raṉg, ਰੰਗ raṅg
condition in Odia
ସ୍ଥିତି sthiti, ବ୍ୟବହାର byabahāra, କଥା kathā
condition in Sanskrit
अवस्था avasthā
condition in Nepali
स्थिति sthiti
condition in Pashto
حالت hālat, شرط šart
condition in Arabic
حَال ḥāl, حَالَة ḥāla, وَضْع waḍʕ, شَرْط šarṭ
condition in Malay
keadaan, syarat
condition in Indonesian
kondisi, keadaan, syarat
condition in Thai
สภาพ sà-pâap, ภาวะ paa-wá, เงื่อนไข ngʉ̂ʉan-kǎi, กติกา gà-dtì-gaa
condition in Vietnamese
bệnh trạng, bệnh tình, tình trạng sức khoẻ, điều kiện
condition in Myanmar
အခြေအနေ a.hkrea.ne

Examples of condition in a sentence

  • Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.
  • Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
  • What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
  • The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
  • Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
  • A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times, archived from the original...

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Synonyms of condition

Forms of condition

Noun
pluralconditions
Verb
third-person singular presentconditions
present participleconditioning
past participleconditioned
pastconditioned

Past tense of condition: conditioned

Plural of condition: conditions

Origin of condition

From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).

Words formed from condition

Phrases with condition

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Words that rhyme with condition

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Questions about condition

What does condition mean?
Condition means a state or quality.
What is condition in Hindi?
Condition in Hindi is हालत (hālat), शर्त (śart). See Condition meaning in Hindi.
How do you use condition in a sentence?
Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.
What part of speech is condition?
Condition can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce condition?
Condition is pronounced /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK).
What is the plural of condition?
The plural of condition is conditions.

Words near condition in the dictionary

  1. condisciples
  2. Condit
  3. condite
  4. condited
  5. conditing
  6. condition
  7. condition number
  8. condition numbers
  9. condition of carriage
  10. condition precedent
  11. condition subsequent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: condition (page history and authors); ഇയൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಮೀಸಲು (Kannada) (page history and authors); رنگ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); କଥା (Odia) (page history and authors); स्थिति (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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