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conditional

/kənˈdɪʃənəl/

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What does conditional mean?

adjective

  1. Limited by a condition.
  2. Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.
  3. Expressing a condition or supposition.
More meanings (5)

noun

  1. A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
  2. The conditional mood.
  3. A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
  4. An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
  5. A condition (a limitation or restriction).

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IPA pronunciation

/kənˈdɪʃənəl/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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But they add the conditional clause that faith can save only when it is furnished with good works.
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549
Pardon, or conditional liberation, or the serving of the full punishment, are all left at present to the chance of a blind official routine.
Enrico FerriCriminal SociologyProject Gutenberg ebook #477
More book examples (3)
I am nice, even to superstition, in keeping my promises, and, therefore, upon all occasions have a care to make them uncertain and conditional.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
The war is reckoned inevitable, nay begun, though France does not proceed to a formal declaration, but contents herself with Monsieur Rouill`e's conditional declaration.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
Plebes, then, having no rank whatever, being in fact conditional cadets until they shall have received their warrants in the following January, must give way to those who have.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448