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modifiers

modifiers is the plural of modifier.

Meaning of modifier

Noun

modifier (plural modifiers)

  1. One who, or that which, modifies.
  2. A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. (It may be any of the following: an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, or a subordinate clause.)
    Synonyms:
    qualifier
  3. A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.
    • The protected modifier makes a class member visible to subclasses, but not to external code.

Phrases with modifiers

Questions about modifiers

What is modifiers the plural of?
Modifiers is the plural of modifier.

Words near modifiers in the dictionary

  1. modifieds
  2. modifiedst
  3. modifier
  4. modifier key
  5. modifier keys
  6. modifiers
  7. modifies
  8. modifiest
  9. modifieth
  10. modify
  11. modifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: modifiers (page history and authors); modifier (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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