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contingential

contingential is the alternative form of contingent.

Meaning of contingent

Adjective

contingent (comparative more contingent, superlative most contingent)

  1. Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
    Synonyms:
    incidental, casual
  2. Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
    • The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.
  3. Not logically necessarily true or false.
  4. Temporary.
    • contingent labor

See all 7 meanings of contingent

Forms of contingential

comparativemore contingential
superlativemost contingential

Questions about contingential

What is contingential the alternative form of?
Contingential is the alternative form of contingent.

Words near contingential in the dictionary

  1. contingent remainder
  2. contingent remainders
  3. contingent symbiosis
  4. contingent valuation
  5. contingent valuations
  6. contingential
  7. contingentism
  8. contingentisms
  9. contingently
  10. contingentness
  11. contingents

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