MODAL
- a modal auxiliary [n -S]
- of or relating to modality in logic
- or relating to a musical mode
- or relating to structure as opposed to substance
- a verb used with other verbs to express mood or tense [n MODALS]
- or relating to a statistical mode
- of or pertaining to mode or form
- based on a scale other than major or minor
- pertaining to mood
- pertaining to a mode of a thing, as distinguished from its substance or matter
- expressing some phase of modality
- any verb that is a modal auxiliary, as can or might