subjunctive mood

1. 1.

   a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible

   Synonymssubjunctive

   Broadermood

Questions about subjunctive mood

What does subjunctive mood mean?

subjunctive mood means "a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible".

What is another word for subjunctive mood?

Close synonyms include subjunctive. 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 subjunctive mood a common word?

subjunctive mood 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.