conditional
conditional Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Subject to one or more conditions, stipulations, or requirements being met; not absolute.
"The university sent her a conditional offer of admission that required her to maintain high grades in her final semester."
In grammar and logic, expressing a condition or supposition and its consequence (such as a clause beginning with 'if' or 'unless').
"In English grammar, a conditional clause often uses the word 'if' to introduce a hypothetical scenario."
• noun
A conditional clause, sentence, mood, or tense in grammar, or an 'if-then' statement in logic and computer programming.
"The students practiced forming past unreal conditionals during their afternoon language lesson."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French 'condicionel' and Late Latin 'conditionalis', derived from Classical Latin 'condicio' ('agreement, stipulation, or terms'), from 'condicere' ('to agree upon or speak together').