Synonyms for condition
Most common
pre-condition caveat necessity quality status shape predicament
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Provision
provision, stipulation, pre-condition, proviso, clause, caveat
2. Requisite — A requirement or prerequisite
Definitions
- n. 1
A state or quality. The health status of a medical patient.
My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
- n. 2
A requirement or prerequisite.
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
- n. 3
A state or quality.
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
- n. 4
A state or quality. A particular state of being.
Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- conditions → provisions, stipulations, pre-conditions, provisos…
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A condition is something that necessarily precedes a result, but does not produce it.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- caveat There is one caveat: the treatment does not always work.
- necessity He said that necessity is the mother of invention.
- quality Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.
- status Sami wanted to catapult Layla to celebrity status.
- shape Ken'nichi made a pond in the shape of Lake Geneva.
By length
- 3 letters
- way1
- 4 letters
- life1, case1, term1, pass1, mood1
- 5 letters
- state1, place1, shape1
- 6 letters
- status2, clause1, caveat3, fettle
- 7 letters
- quality3, strings1, proviso3
- 8 letters
- position3
- 9 letters
- provision3, necessity4, requisite3
- 11 letters
- requirement3, predicament4, stipulation4
- 12 letters
- prerequisite4
- 13 letters
- consideration5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (status2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- condition
- Italiano
- condizione
- Español
- condición
- Català
- condició