conditional
- adjective
- /kənˈdɪʃənl/
- Creating attractive employment opportunities conditional on educational success is another important incentive.
- conditional probability
- conditional model
- conditional acceptance
All kindness was conditional on me looking a certain way.
- All kindness was conditional on me looking a certain way.
- You get that vaccine passport, that becomes a privilege that is conditional on your compliance.
- Maybe they were young and the love was very conditional.
- That somebody's affection or their attention toward you was conditional, That you had to earn it, that you couldn't count on it.
- So for these conditional cash transfers, you said that they are kind of on the demand side.
- It's not a self, it's not compounded, it's not conditional, it's not constructed.
- The latter is a gratuitous but conditional gratuitous promise.
- So it it's kind of a way to have more private conditional transactions on Bitcoin.
- The primary fear is that they know they live on a conditional pedestal.
- The child needs to experience love free from any conditional set up.
- So then I'll go to the top right where it says shares and then conditional orders.
Examples
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Your promotion is conditional upon completing the training program successfully.
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All kindness was conditional on me looking a certain way.
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And I stress could, because although we have a plan, it is a conditional plan.
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And you know, we sort of put ourselves on this conditional love spectrum.
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And I feel like we shouldn't look at the world in such a conditional way, or at least love in such a conditional way.
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The suspension of your sentence is conditional on your continued co-operation with this programme.
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Our acceptance, as I am sure you will understand, is conditional upon your recognition of other people's rights.
Fiction book (1991) -
As I said from day one, your admission to St. Agatha's is conditional.
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A similar situation arises in the requirements for obtaining conditional release from the penalty.
Academic text (1999) -
The immigrant investor would be granted residence on a conditional basis for two years.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
Depending on something that must happen first
Dependent on something else or on certain conditions
Dependent on a condition or on something happening
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
The chance that an event happens when you know another event already happened
- Formal
An agreement that only starts to have effect if a certain event happens
- Specialized
A learned response that happens when a certain sound or signal appears, for example a dog drooling at a bell
- Specialized
An automatic learned reaction to a signal after repeated practice, for example a dog drooling at a bell
- Specialized
A link between two statements that says if one is true then the other must be true
- Specialized
A learned reaction to a sound or signal after it happens many times
- Formal
An agreement where the seller keeps ownership of the goods until the buyer pays in full
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conditional comes from the idea of a 'condition' and from Latin parts con- 'together' and dic- 'to say', the same root you see in dictionary. So, a conditional thing is one that depends on set terms or is not definite.