CONDITIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conditional mean? 

• CONDITIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONDITIONAL has 2 senses:

1. qualified by reservations

2. imposing or depending on or containing a condition

  Familiarity information: CONDITIONAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDITIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Qualified by reservations

Similar:

qualified (limited or restricted; not absolute)

Derivation:

conditionality (the state of being conditional)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Imposing or depending on or containing a condition

Context example:

the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid

Similar:

contrary to fact; counterfactual (going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis))

contingent; contingent on; contingent upon; dependant on; dependant upon; dependent on; dependent upon; depending on (being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow)

dependant; dependent; qualified (contingent on something else)

probationary; provisional; provisionary; tentative (under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon)

provisory (subject to a proviso)

Also:

qualified (limited or restricted; not absolute)

Antonym:

unconditional (not conditional)

Derivation:

conditionality (the state of being conditional)

 Context examples 

Equations are sometimes called more explicitly as conditional equations.

(Equation, NCI Thesaurus)

A category specifying that a product is marketed under a conditional approval of a New Animal Drug Application.

(Marketed under Conditional Approval of New Animal Drug Application, NCI Thesaurus)

Such DefinedObservationResults may be used as criteria for conditional activities or repeated activities.

(Defined Observation Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Conditional assertions make use of the DefinedContingentOnRelationship class.

(Defined Expression Variable Relationship, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Fanny was perfectly right in giving only a conditional answer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A man of honour could not have doubted the intention, but Mr. Darcy chose to doubt it—or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence—in short anything or nothing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)