Subjunctive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or being a mood of a verb used in some languages for contingent or hypothetical action, action viewed subjectively, or grammatically subordinate statements.
  • n. The subjunctive mood.
  • n. A subjunctive construction. See Usage Note at if.
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  • adj. inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact. English examples include so be it; I wouldn’t if I were you; were I a younger man, I would fight back; I asked that he leave.
  • n. The subjunctive mood.
  • n. A form in the subjunctive mood.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
  • n. The subjunctive mood; also, a verb in the subjunctive mood.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Subjoined or added to something before said or written.
  • In grammar, noting that mode of the verb by which is expressed condition, hypothesis, or contingency, and which is generally used in a clause subjoined or subordinate to another clause or verb, and preceded by one of certain conjunctions, especially (in English) if or though: as in the sentence “if that be the case, then I am wrong.”
  • n. In grammar, the subjunctive mode.
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  • n. a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
  • adj. relating to a mood of verbs
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mood    modality    mode   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    infinitive    indicative    imperative    optative    participle   
     
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