Exact Match:
- modal
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; "modal auxiliary"
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- intransitive
collapse - designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- auxiliary,
- auxiliary verb,
- conjunctive,
- copula,
- copulative,
- correct,
- defective verb,
- deponent verb,
- finite verb,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- impersonal verb,
- infinitive,
- intransitive verb,
- linking,
- linking verb,
- modal auxiliary,
- neuter verb,
- nominal,
- participial,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- transitive,
- verb,
- verb phrase,
- verbal
- conditional
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- imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid"
- qualified by reservations related words >
- a fortiori,
- a posteriori,
- a priori,
- acceptable,
- accidental,
- adventitious,
- aleatory,
- analytic,
- at issue,
- casual,
- categorical,
- circumstantial,
- conditioned,
- condonable,
- contingent,
- deductive,
- defensible,
- dependent,
- depending,
- dialectic,
- discursive,
- enthymematic,
- epagogic,
- excusable,
- fixed,
- formal,
- fortuitous,
- given,
- hypothetical,
- iffy,
- in question,
- in suspense,
- in the balance,
- incidental,
- inductive,
- inessential,
- inferential,
- limited,
- maieutic,
- modal,
- modified,
- nonessential,
- obscure,
- occasional,
- open,
- pendent,
- pending,
- problematic,
- provisional,
- provisory,
- qualified,
- questionable,
- relative,
- reliant,
- restricted,
- soritical,
- specificative,
- specified,
- stated,
- stipulated,
- stipulatory,
- suspenseful,
- syllogistic,
- synthetic,
- tenable,
- tentative,
- tolerable,
- uncertain,
- uncounted,
- undecided,
- undetermined,
- unessential,
- unestablished,
- unfixed,
- unsettled,
- untold,
- up for grabs,
- vindicable,
- warrantable
- transitive
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- designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- auxiliary,
- auxiliary verb,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- conjunctive,
- copula,
- copulative,
- correct,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- defective verb,
- deponent verb,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- finite verb,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- formal,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- impermanent,
- impersonal verb,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- infinitive,
- insubstantial,
- intransitive,
- intransitive verb,
- linking,
- linking verb,
- modal auxiliary,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- neuter verb,
- nominal,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- participial,
- passing,
- perishable,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- short-lived,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- verb,
- verb phrase,
- verbal,
- volatile
- auxiliary
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- functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" related words >
- abetting,
- accessory,
- accident,
- accidental,
- acolyte,
- addendum,
- addition,
- additional,
- adjunct,
- adjutant,
- adjuvant,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- agent,
- aid,
- aide,
- aide-de-camp,
- aider,
- aiding,
- alter ego,
- ancillary,
- another,
- appendage,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenant,
- ascititious,
- assistance,
- assistant,
- assisting,
- attendant,
- auxiliary verb,
- backing,
- best man,
- casual,
- circumstantial,
- coadjutant,
- coadjutor,
- coadjutress,
- coadjutrix,
- collateral,
- complementary,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- contributory,
- copula,
- defective verb,
- deponent verb,
- deputy,
- executive officer,
- extra,
- farther,
- finite verb,
- fortuitous,
- fostering,
- fresh,
- further,
- girl Friday,
- happenstance,
- help,
- helper,
- helpful,
- helping,
- helpmate,
- helpmeet,
- impersonal verb,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- infinitive,
- instrumental,
- intransitive,
- intransitive verb,
- lieutenant,
- linking verb,
- man Friday,
- mere chance,
- ministerial,
- ministering,
- ministrant,
- modal auxiliary,
- more,
- neuter verb,
- new,
- nonessential,
- not-self,
- nurtural,
- nutricial,
- other,
- paranymph,
- paraprofessional,
- peripheral,
- plus,
- reserve,
- second,
- secondary,
- servant,
- serving,
- sideman,
- spare,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- subsidiary,
- superadded,
- superaddition,
- superfluous,
- supernumerary,
- supervenient,
- supplement,
- supplemental,
- supplementary,
- support,
- supporter,
- supporting,
- supporting actor,
- supporting instrumentalist,
- supportive,
- surplus,
- transitive,
- tributary,
- ulterior,
- unessential,
- upholding,
- verb,
- verb phrase,
- verbal
- formal
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- being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"
- (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English"
- logically deductive; "formal proof"
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet" related words >
- High-Church,
- Latinate,
- accepted,
- acknowledged,
- adjectival,
- admitted,
- adverbial,
- anatomic,
- approved,
- architectonic,
- architectural,
- arranged,
- attributive,
- authorized,
- awkward,
- baccalaureate service,
- baptismal,
- being done,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- businesslike,
- byname,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- ceremony,
- chivalric,
- chivalrous,
- cognominal,
- comme il faut,
- commencement,
- conditional,
- confining,
- conformable,
- conjunctive,
- constructional,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convocation,
- copulative,
- correct,
- courtly,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- definite,
- demure,
- dignified,
- diminutive,
- distant,
- dress uniform,
- earnest,
- edificial,
- elephantine,
- empty formality,
- epithetic,
- established,
- eucharistic,
- evening dress,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- explicit,
- express,
- extrinsic,
- fixed,
- flatulent,
- forced,
- formal dress,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formality,
- formalized,
- formational,
- formative,
- formulaic,
- formular,
- formulary,
- frowning,
- full dress,
- function,
- functional,
- gallant,
- gassy,
- glossematic,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- grammatic,
- grandiloquent,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- guinde,
- habitual,
- halting,
- harmonious,
- heavy,
- honorific,
- hypocoristic,
- impersonal,
- in hand,
- in name only,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- inflated,
- inflexible,
- initiation,
- inkhorn,
- intransitive,
- knightly,
- labored,
- lawful,
- leaden,
- legal,
- legalistic,
- limited,
- linking,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- long-faced,
- lumbering,
- meet,
- methodical,
- modal,
- morphological,
- morphotic,
- mummery,
- nominal,
- nominative,
- normal,
- observance,
- office,
- official,
- old-fashioned,
- old-world,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- organic,
- organismal,
- orthodox,
- ostensible,
- outward,
- participial,
- paschal,
- pedantic,
- performance,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- postpositional,
- precise,
- prepositional,
- prescribed,
- pretended,
- prim,
- pro forma,
- professed,
- pronominal,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- purported,
- quasi,
- received,
- recognized,
- regalia,
- regular,
- religious ceremony,
- reserved,
- right,
- rigid,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- routine,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- sedate,
- seemly,
- self-called,
- self-christened,
- self-important,
- self-styled,
- serious,
- service,
- sesquipedalian,
- set,
- so-called,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- soi-disant,
- solemn,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- somber,
- square,
- staid,
- standard,
- starched,
- stately,
- steady,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stone-faced,
- straight,
- straight-faced,
- strait-laced,
- straitened,
- strict,
- structural,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- substantive,
- substructural,
- superficial,
- superstructural,
- supposed,
- surface,
- swollen,
- symmetrical,
- syntactic,
- systematic,
- tagmemic,
- tails,
- tectonic,
- textural,
- thoughtful,
- titular,
- traditional,
- transitive,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- tuxedo,
- unbending,
- unchanging,
- uniform,
- unsmiling,
- unwieldy,
- usual,
- verbal,
- weighty,
- well-ordered,
- well-regulated,
- would-be
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