conditional

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   imposing or depending on or containing a condition

   conditional acceptance of the terms

2. 2
   adj

   Limited by a condition.

   I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.

3. 3
   adj

   Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.

   "A implies B" is a conditional statement.

4. 4
   adj

   Expressing a condition or supposition.

   a conditional word, mode, or tense

5. 5
   noun

   A statement that one sentence is true if another is.

   "A implies B" is a conditional.

6. 6
   noun

   An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.

   if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.

7. 7
   noun

   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 simply on God's verity and mercy, although they require conditions, but not as hanging thereon; of which promises the gospel may well be called a publication.

8. 8
   adj

   qualified by reservations

Etymology

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