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modal has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
“the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30”
an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality
2 of the 4 recorded senses carry no synonym, antonym or related term, so they are not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for modal.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for modal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.