of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; modal auxiliary'
modal (adj.)
an auxiliary verb (such as `can or `will) that is used to express modality
[ Syn: modal auxiliary verb , modal auxiliary , modal verb ]
modal (n.)
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30
[ Syn: average ]