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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conditional \Con*di"tion*al\, noun
1. A limitation. [Obs.] --Bacon.
2. A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals. --L. H. Atwater.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conditional \Con*di"tion*al\, adjective [L. conditionalis.]
1. Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. --Bp. Warburton.
2. (Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. --Whately.
The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously. --J. S. Mill.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conditional
adjective
1: qualified by reservations
2: 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" [ant: {unconditional}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "conditional": 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
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