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SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 mood" is a kind of...):
modality; mode; mood (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)