Should

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to express obligation or duty: You should send her a note.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to express probability or expectation: They should arrive at noon.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to express conditionality or contingency: If she should fall, then so would I.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to moderate the directness or bluntness of a statement: I should think he would like to go.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Used to form the future tense of the subjunctive mood, usually in the first person.
  • v. Be obliged to; have an obligation to; ought to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate.
  • v. Will likely (become or do something); indicates that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.
  • v. A variant of would.
  • n. A statement of what should be the case as opposed to what is the case.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imperative. Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Preterit of shall.
  • Word Usage
    "I only put things on there that I choose to read, not books that someone thinks I should read, or books I've agreed to review, or books I *should* read if I knew what was good for me."
    Verb Form
    shoulds   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    shall   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ought   
    Verb Stem
    shall   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hood    Wood    could    good    goode    hood    misunderstood    stood    understood    withstood   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    will    must    would    might    ought    could    classicus    do    made    active-transitive