An auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality.

synonyms: modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verb.

Dutch: modaal werkwoord

Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution:
— The modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30.

synonym: average.

Roget 6: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical^†; extraneous etc. (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; ascititious^†, adscititious^†; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous.    implanted, ingrafted^†; inculcated, infused.    outward, apparent etc. (external) 220.    ... show more

Roget 7: conditional, modal, formal; structural, organic.   

Roget 8: circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal; contingent, incidental; adventitious etc. (extrinsic) 6; limitative^†.    ... show more

Of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode.

Relating to or expressing the mood of a verb.