conditional
/kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/
conditional adjective: limited by a condition.
Adjective
conditional (not comparable)
- Limited by a condition.
- I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
- Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.1753, William Warburton, The Character and Conduct of the Messengers
- Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.
- "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
- A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
- Expressing a condition or supposition.
- a conditional word, mode, or tense
Noun
conditional (plural conditionals)
- 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.
- "A implies B" is a conditional.
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals1867, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Manual of Elementary Logic, quoted in OED
- Synonyms:
- if-then statement, material conditional
- An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
- if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.
- A condition (a limitation or restriction).
- The former is called the law, which hath his promises, conditionals, and comminations or threats, accordingly; the other is called the gospel, or rather the free promises hanging not on conditions on our behalf, but simply on God's verity and mercy, although they require conditions, but not as...1832, John Bradford, Memoirs of the Life and Martyrdom of John Bradford, page 69
- GOD grant us to be clean beasts, to cleave the hoofs accordingly, that is, to give the old man meat, meet for the owers, that is, the law with his appurtenances, conditionals, promises, and comminations; and to give to the new man the gospel and sweet free promises, as appertaineth; and then...1837, The Letters of the Martyrs: Collected and Published in 1564, page 363
conditional meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
conditional in Hindi
- सशर्त, शर्ताधीन
conditional in Tamil
- கட்டுப்பாடுடைய, நிபந்தனைக்குட்பட்ட, வரையறையான, கட்டுப்பாட்டிற்குட்பட்ட, நிபந்தனை, நிபந்தனையுள்ள
conditional in Marathi
- सशर्त, शरती
conditional in Urdu
- مشروط
More languagesFewer languages
- conditional in Bengali
- শর্তাধীন, সর্তযুক্ত, সর্তমূলক, সপ্রতিবন্ধ
- conditional in Telugu
- షరతులతో కూడినది, షరతులతో కూడిన, షరతులతో కూడినవి
- conditional in Malayalam
- നിബന്ധനയ്ക്കു വിധേയമായി, ഉപാധികളോടെ, വ്യവസ്ഥയോടെ, സോപാധികം
- conditional in Kannada
- ಷರತ್ತುಬದ್ಧ
- conditional in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ਰਤੀਆ, ਸ਼ਰਤਬੱਧ
- conditional in Gujarati
- શરતી
- conditional in Odia
- ସର୍ତ୍ତମୂଳକ, ସର୍ତ୍ତସାପେକ୍ଷ
- conditional in Nepali
- सशर्त, शर्ताधीन, शरती
- conditional in Tagalog
- pasumala
- conditional in Arabic
- شَرْطِيّ šarṭiyy
- conditional in Vietnamese
- thức điều kiện
Examples of conditional in a sentence
- "If it rains, the ground gets wet" is an example of a zero conditional.
- "If it rains tomorrow, I will wear my coat" is a first conditional sentence.
- "If I had a billion dollars, I would buy a medieval castle" involves a second conditional.
Synonyms of conditional
Antonyms
Forms of conditional
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | conditionall |
| Noun | |
| plural | conditionals |
Origin of conditional
From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.
Words formed from conditional
- biconditional
- conditional agreement
- conditional assembly language
- conditional baptism
- conditional clause
- conditional comment
- conditional entropy
- conditional fee
- conditionalise
- conditionalism
- conditionalist
- conditionality
- conditionalize
- conditionally
- conditionalness
- conditional operator
- conditional perfect
- conditional probability
- conditional probability distribution
- conditional proof
- conditional sentence
- conditional tense
- conditional unconditional
- inconditional
- multiconditional
- nonconditional
- postconditional
- pre-conditional
- semiconditional
- counterfactual conditional
- first conditional
- horseshoe conditional
- indicative conditional
- mixed conditional
- Philonian conditional
- present conditional
- relevance conditional
- second conditional
- strict conditional
- third conditional
- zero conditional
Phrases with conditional
Questions about conditional
- What does conditional mean?
- Conditional means limited by a condition.
- What is conditional in Hindi?
- Conditional in Hindi is सशर्त, शर्ताधीन. See Conditional meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is conditional?
- Conditional can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce conditional?
- Conditional is pronounced /kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/.
Words near conditional in the dictionary
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