VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / modal

Thesaurus: modal

Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

modedefinitionrelatingdefinitionformdefinitionexpressingdefinitionpertainingdefinitionmooddefinitionindicatingdefinitionthoughtdefinitionverbdefinitionconceivingdefinitionconsistingdefinitionconstitutingdefinitiondistributiondefinitionecclesiasticaldefinitionessencedefinitionexistencedefinitionfrequentdefinitionmusicaldefinitionrealitydefinitionvaluedefinitionwrittendefinitionmodalitydefinitionauxiliarydefinitionexpressdefinitionlogicdefinitionmodal auxiliaryfamilymodal auxiliary verbfamilymodal logicfamily

Definitions

  1. a. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
  2. a. Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.
  3. adj. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
  4. adj. of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
  5. adj. relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
  6. n. an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
  7. 1. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill. 2. (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.
  8. Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceivingexistence, or of expressing thought.
  9. j:88/n:12 s. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution a. of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode a. relating to or expressing the mood of a verb