Instrumental Definition
ĭnstrə-mĕntl
instrumentals
adjective
Serving as a means; helpful (in bringing something about)
Webster's New World
Of or performed with an instrument or tool.
Webster's New World
Of, performed on, or written for a musical instrument or instruments.
Webster's New World
Of or in keeping with instrumentalism.
Webster's New World
Designating, of, or in the case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives expressing means or agency.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
noun
instrumentals
The instrumental case.
American Heritage
The instrumental case: this case is expressed by inflection in Old English, Sanskrit, Russian, etc., and in English with the prepositions by or with (Ex.: OE ðȳ spere, “by the spear, with the spear”)
Webster's New World
A composition for a musical instrument or instruments.
Webster's New World
A word or phrase in this case.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Instrumental
Noun
Singular:
instrumentalPlural:
instrumentalsOrigin of Instrumental
-
From Middle English, from Medieval Latin instrumentalis, from instruere (“to build into, set up, construct, furnish, hence "to train"”), from in- (“on”) + struere (“to put together, arrange, pile up, build, construct”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, to strew”).
From Wiktionary
Find Similar Words
Find similar words to instrumental using the buttons below.