conditional

Limited by a condition.

Adjective

  1. Limited by a condition.
    • I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
    • Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. - 1753, William Warburton, The Character and Conduct of the Messengers:
  2. Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.
    • "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
    • A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. - 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:
  3. Expressing a condition or supposition.
    • a conditional word, mode, or tense

Origin

From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.

Forms

conditionall

Synonyms

conditioned in logic limited relative conditional contingent qualified

Antonyms

absolute categorical unconditional unfettered unlimited universal

Hypernyms

dependent limited restricted

Hyponyms

probational provisional

Derived

biconditional conditional agreement conditional assembly language conditional baptism conditional clause conditional comment conditional entropy conditional fee conditionalise conditionalism conditionalist conditionality conditionalize conditionally conditionalness conditional operator conditional perfect conditional probability conditional probability distribution conditional proof conditional sentence conditional tense conditional unconditional inconditional

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.
    • "A implies B" is a conditional.
    • Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals - 1867, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Manual of Elementary Logic, quoted in OED:
  4. An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
    • if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.
  5. A condition (a limitation or restriction).
    • The former is called the law, which hath his promises, conditionals, and comminations or threats, accordingly; the other is called the gospel, or rather the free promises hanging not on conditions on our behalf, but...
    • GOD grant us to be clean beasts, to cleave the hoofs accordingly, that is, to give the old man meat, meet for the owers, that is, the law with his appurtenances, conditionals, promises, and comminations; and to give to...
    • For mine own part, I confess I do not in any measure think it needful to insist upon the conditionals of these assertions of the Holy Ghost, as to the removal of any or all the oppositions that from them, of old or of...

Forms

conditionals conditionall

Synonyms

if-then statement material conditional

Derived

counterfactual conditional first conditional horseshoe conditional indicative conditional mixed conditional Philonian conditional present conditional relevance conditional second conditional strict conditional third conditional zero conditional