conditional
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conditional/kənˈdɪʃənl/
▶adjective
- 1 subject to one or more conditions being met.
- 2 Grammar expressing a condition.
- 1 Grammar & Philosophy a conditional clause or conjunction.
- 2 Grammar the conditional mood of a verb, for example should in if I should die.
– derivatives
conditionality noun,
conditionally adverb.
conditionality noun,
conditionally adverb.
'conditional' also found in these Oxford entries:
antecedent
- apodosis
- Bayes' theorem
- conditional discharge
- consequent
- counterfactual
- have
- if
- means test
- protasis
- provisory
- serjeanty
- should
- subject
- would
