Modal
- a. Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.
- a. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.