Thesaurus: conditional

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1. a. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
2. a. word/expressing">Expressing a word/condition">condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
3. n. A limitation.
4. n. A conditional word, word/mode">mode, or proposition.
5. adj. qualified by reservations
6. adj. imposing or depending on or containing a condition
7. 1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. 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. 2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. J. S. Mill. 1. A limitation. [Obs.] Bacon. 2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition. Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. L. H. Atwater.
8. word/expressing">Expressing a word/condition">condition or supposition; as, a conditional word,mode, or tense.A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of onecategorical proposition on another. Whately.The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . usedsynonymously. J. S. Mill.
9. j:84/n:16 s. qualified by reservations a. imposing or depending on or containing a condition