adjective
- not involving or expressing modality; not using modal verbs or modal logic
Usage: linguistics; logic
Examples
- The sentence uses only nonmodal verbs like ‘walk’ and ‘eat’.
- Nonmodal logic deals with statements that are simply true or false.
- The linguist analyzed the nonmodal constructions in the text.
- This is a nonmodal approach to understanding necessity.
- The grammar book explains both modal and nonmodal auxiliary verbs.
- Nonmodal expressions don’t indicate possibility or obligation.