modal
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality
Types & categories
- auxiliary verb hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
Related & opposite
- musical mode derivation
- musical mode pertains to
Sense 3 adjective
relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
modal auxiliary
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | auxiliary verb |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | musical mode |
| 2 | pertains to | Related & opposite | musical mode |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | modality |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | modality |