condition
a state at a particular time
How often you will meet it
Rank 950 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 19,330 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a state at a particular time also: status a condition (or state) of disrepairthe current status of the arms negotiations
- an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else also: precondition, stipulation
- a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing the human condition
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision also: circumstance, consideration another consideration is the time it would take
- the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') also: shape
- an illness, disease, or other medical problem a heart conditiona skin condition
condition in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Who is their so ignorant as not to judge of my dreadful condition?
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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Gangrenous condition of the tongue, proceeding from a disordered liver, and mysteriously communicated to the brain.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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No comment need be made upon a condition of public sentiment responsible for such alarming results.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Stealth, it occurred to him, had, since last night, become a stern condition of his life.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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In this condition he remained until the pipe fell from his lips and broke in fragments on the floor.
Snowflakes and Sunbeams · R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne · Chapter 1