FromMiddle English instrumental instrumentale Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis instrument -al
instrumental (comparative moreinstrumental ,superlative mostinstrumental )
Essential orcentral ; of great importance orrelevance .He wasinstrumental in conducting the business.
c. 1599–1602 William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene ii] :The head is not more native to the heart, The hand moreinstrumental to the mouth
2012 Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds , part 1, chapter 2,51 :Few songwriters have been asinstrumental in creating the mold for American music.
2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, inRail , page40 :[...] Prosser wasinstrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
Serving as an instrument,medium ,means , oragency .1896 Charles M. Sheldon , chapter 12, inIn His Steps Maxwell started back to his study, feeling that kind of satisfaction which a man feels when he has been even partlyinstrumental in finding an unemployed person a remunerative position.
( music ) instrumental music
aninstrumental part
c. 1700 John Dryden ,Cymon and Iphigenia :Sweet voices mix'd withinstrumental sounds.
( music ) pause in the vocals of asong , usually occurring midway through, in which a musical instrument replaces the vocals.( grammar ) case expressingmeans oragency , generally corresponding to the English use ofprepositions such asby with through by means of objective case .theinstrumental case
acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.
pertaining to the instrumental case
instrumental (plural instrumentals
( grammar ) instrumental case .( music ) composition written or performed withoutlyrics orsinging , using a lead instrument to replace vocals.1977 Stereo Review , volume38 , page70 :I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dullinstrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent[ …]
composition without lyrics
“instrumental ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “instrumental ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC Borrowed fromLatin īnstrūmentālis
instrumental m or f masculine and feminine plural instrumentals
instrumental instrumental m uncountable
( grammar ) instrumental ( medicine ) instruments Learned borrowing fromLate Latin īnstrūmentālis surface analysis ,instrument -al
instrumental (feminine instrumentale masculine plural instrumentaux feminine plural instrumentales
instrumental instrumental m plural instrumentaux
( grammar ) instrumental case ,instrumental Coordinate terms: accusatif génitif locatif nominatif vocatif Borrowed fromFrench instrumental Instrument -al
instrumental (strong nominative masculine singular instrumentaler not comparable )
( music ) instrumental Antonym: nichtinstrumental Positive forms ofinstrumental (uncomparable )
Borrowed fromDutch instrumentaal French instrumental Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis
instrumental (comparative lebih instrumentalsuperlative paling instrumental
instrumental ( music ) ( linguistics ) FromMedieval Latin instrumentalis instrument -al
IPA (key ) : /inˌstrumɛnˈtaːl/ ,/inˈstrumɛntal/ ,/instruˈmɛntal/ instrumental ( rare )
Resembling aninstrument in role;instrumental ( serving as a means ) Resembling aninstrument in use( i.e. being used as a tool ) Resembling a (specific kind of) instrument in appearance.
Rhymes:-al -aw Hyphenation:ins‧tru‧men‧tal instrumental m or f plural instrumentais sometimescomparable )
( comparable ) instrumental ( acting as an instrument ) ( music , not comparable ) instrumental ( having no singing ) ( grammar , not comparable ) instrumental ( pertaining to the instrumental case ) instrumental m plural instrumentais
( uncountable , grammar ) instrumental ( grammatical case ) ( countable , music ) instrumental ( composition without singing ) Borrowed fromFrench instrumental surface analysis ,instrument -al
instrumental m or n feminine singular instrumentală masculine plural instrumentali feminine and neuter plural instrumentale
instrumental ȉnstrumentāl m inan Cyrillic spelling и̏нструмента̄л
( grammar ) instrumental case ( music ) IPA (key ) : /íːnstrumɛntal/ ,/instrumɛntáːl/ ȋnstrumental or instrumentȃl m inan
( grammar ) instrumental case Synonym: orodnik ( music ) instrumental musicThis noun needs aninflection-table template .
“instrumental Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene),2014–2025 IPA (key ) : /instɾumenˈtal/ [ĩns.t̪ɾu.mẽn̪ˈt̪al] Rhymes:-al Syllabification:ins‧tru‧men‧tal instrumental m or f masculine and feminine plural instrumentales
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