volitional — 英語辞典

形容詞

1. Of or relating to the volition or will.

   用法

   • 改まった表現
   • not-comparable

   例文

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

   その他の例文 (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.

   用法

   • comparable

   例文

   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.

   用法

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

   同義語

   conjecturalhortativepresumptivetentative

名詞

1. The volitional grammatical mood.

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

形容詞

1. with deliberate intention

   例文

   a volitional act