instrumental role

1. 1.

   the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process

   Synonymsinstrument

   Broadersemantic role

Questions about instrumental role

What does instrumental role mean?

instrumental role means "the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process".

What is another word for instrumental role?

Close synonyms include instrument. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is instrumental role a common word?

instrumental role is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.