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adjective

Modal adj.

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.

(Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.

(Gram.) Pertaining to or denoting mood.

noun

Modal n. (Gram.), A modal auxiliary.

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Etymology of 'Modal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Modal" Quotes from Famous Books

... modal when the noun which follows the verb is not the name of any object affected by the verb, but the name of some object explaining the manner in which the action of the verb takes place, the instrument with which it is done, the end for ...

— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham