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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024in•stru•men•tal /ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəl/USA pronunciation adj. - serving or acting as an instrument:Your linguistics professor was instrumental in getting me that job.
- Music and Danceperformed on a musical instrument, and not including the voice:an instrumental piece for piano.
n. [countable] - Music and Dancea piece of music played by instruments, and not including the voice:The band played a short instrumental.
See -stru-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024in•stru•men•tal (in′strə men′tl),USA pronunciation adj. - serving or acting as an instrument or means;
useful;
helpful. - Music and Danceperformed on or written for a musical instrument or instruments:instrumental music.
- of or pertaining to an instrument or tool.
- Grammar
- Grammar(in certain inflected languages, as Old English and Russian) noting or pertaining to a case having as its distinctive function the indication of means or agency, as Old English beseah blīthe andweitan "looked with a happy countenance.''
- Grammarnoting the affix or other element characteristic of this case, or a word containing such an element.
- Grammarsimilar to such a case form in function or meaning, as the Latin instrumental ablative, gladiō, "by means of a sword.''
- Grammar(in case grammar) pertaining to the semantic role of a noun phrase that indicates the inanimate, nonvolitional, immediate cause of the action expressed by a verb, as the rock in The rock broke the window or in I broke the window with the rock.
n. - Grammar
- the instrumental case.
- a word in the instrumental case.
- Grammara construction of similar meaning.
- Music and Dancea musical composition played by an instrument or a group of instruments. Cf. vocal (def. 8).
- Medieval Latin instrūmentālis. See instrument, -al1
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged implemental, effectual, effective.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: instrumental /ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəl/ adj - serving as a means or influence; helpful
- of, relating to, or characterized by an instrument or instruments
- played by or composed for musical instruments
- denoting a case of nouns, etc, in certain inflected languages, indicating the instrument used in performing an action, usually translated into English using the prepositions with or by means of
n - a piece of music composed for instruments rather than for voices
- the instrumental case
ˌinstrumenˈtality n ˌinstruˈmentally adv |