Conditional

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conditional \Con*di"tion*al\, n.
     1. A limitation. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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     2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
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              Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. --L.
                                                    H. Atwater.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Conditional \Con*di"tion*al\, a. [L. conditionalis.]
     1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or
        conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain
        terms; as, a conditional promise.
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              Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be
              made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional
              punishment annexed and declared.      --Bp.
                                                    Warburton.
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     2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as,
        a conditional word, mode, or tense.
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              A conditional proposition is one which asserts the
              dependence of one categorical proposition on
              another.                              --Whately.
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              The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
              used synonymously.                    --J. S. Mill.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conditional
       adj 1: qualified by reservations
       2: 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" [ant: {unconditional}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "conditional":
     a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, acceptable, accidental,
     adventitious, aleatory, analytic, at issue, casual, categorical,
     circumstantial, conditioned, condonable, contingent, deductive,
     defensible, dependent, depending, dialectic, discursive,
     enthymematic, epagogic, excusable, fixed, formal, fortuitous,
     given, hypothetical, iffy, in question, in suspense,
     in the balance, incidental, inductive, inessential, inferential,
     limited, maieutic, modal, modified, nonessential, obscure,
     occasional, open, pendent, pending, problematic, provisional,
     provisory, qualified, questionable, relative, reliant, restricted,
     soritical, specificative, specified, stated, stipulated,
     stipulatory, suspenseful, syllogistic, synthetic, tenable,
     tentative, tolerable, uncertain, uncounted, undecided,
     undetermined, unessential, unestablished, unfixed, unsettled,
     untold, up for grabs, vindicable, warrantable