volitional — قاموس الإنجليزية

صفة

1. Of or relating to the volition or will.

   الاستعمال

   • رسمي
   • not-comparable

   أمثلة

   Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.

2. Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.

   الاستعمال

   • comparable

   أمثلة

   A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.

   “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.

3. Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.

   الاستعمال

   • not-comparable
   • of an inflectional class or inflected form

   مرادفات

   conjecturalhortativepresumptivetentative

اسم

1. The volitional grammatical mood.

2. A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.

صفة

1. with deliberate intention

   أمثلة

   a volitional act