SUBJUNCTIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible

Synonyms:

subjunctive; subjunctive mood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("subjunctive" is a kind of...):

modality; mode; mood (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)

Meaning:

Relating to a mood of verbs

Example:

subjunctive verb endings

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Pertainym:

subjunctive mood (a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible)