Instrumental

Adjective

 * 1) Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.
 * He was instrumental in conducting the business.
 * 1) * The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth &mdash; Shakespeare, Hamlet, I,ii
 * 2)  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music.
 * 3) * He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship. &mdash; Thomas Babington Macaulay
 * 4) * Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds. &mdash; John Dryden
 * 5)  Applied to a case expressing means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms. It continues to be used in Slavic languages.

Noun

 * 1)  The instrumental case.
 * 2)  A composition without lyrics.

Adverbs for Instrumental
definitely; helpfully; necessarily; admittedly; covertly; secretly; furtively; openly; proudly; ostentatiously; usefully; diabolically; benevolently; obscurely; inscrutably; valuably; serviceably; fortunately; capably; competently.

Thesaurus
accessory, adjuvant, advantageous, agential, agentival, agentive, ancillary, assistant, assisting, auxiliary, beneficial, catalytic, concert, conducive, contributory, dramatico-musical, employable, facilitating, favoring, forwarding, fostering, handy, helpful, helping, important, intermediary, jazz, jazzy, mediating, mediatorial, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, nurtural, nutricial, of service, orchestral, promoting, rock, serviceable, serving, significant, subservient, subsidiary, supporting, supportive, swing, symphonic, syncopated, useful, utilitarian, valuable

Etymology
From <  instrumentalis < instruere ("to build into, set up, construct, furnish," hence "to train") < in- ("on") + struere ("to put together, arrange, pile up, build, construct") <.

Adjective

 * Dutch: instrumentaal
 * Finnish: instrumentaalinen


 * Finnish: instrumentaalinen

Derived terms

 * instrumental error

Related terms

 * instrumentation
 * instrumentality
 * instrumentive

Noun

 * Armenian: գործիական
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: творителен падеж (tvorítelen padéž)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: instrumentalis
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მოქმედებითი
 * German: Instrumental-Kasus
 * Greek: πειραματική φωνητική, εργαστηριακή φωνητική


 * Hungarian: eszközhatározó eset (using -val or -vel endings)
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: 造格 (ぞうかく, zoukakú), 具格 (ぐかく, gukakú)
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: творительный падеж (tvorítel’nyj padéž)
 * Slovak: siedmy pád, inštrumentál
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * Korean: 기악

Adjective

 * 1) instrumental

Noun

 * 1)  the instrumental case

Noun

 * 1) the instrumental case

Adjective

 * 1) instrumental