Adjective: contingent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more contingent |
| Superlative | most contingent |
Sample Sentences
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The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.
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a contingent estate
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The imposition of the death penalty should not be contingent on a particular jury's unguided understanding of a legal term of art. [1989, Thurgood Marshall, “Dissenting Opinion”, in Watkins v. Murray:]
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This rather narrow theological dispute eventually helped eradicate from Western philosophy the idea of universals—the notion that concepts in the mind correspond to eternal truths, like the Platonic forms—and succeeded in making the world, as Blumenberg puts it, “radically contingent.” [2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, quoting Hans Blumenberg, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:]
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Both Catalan parties have said their support for getting the PSOE back into office will be contingent on an amnesty for the hundreds of people who participated in the failed push to secede from Spain in October 2017. [2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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contingent labor
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contingent worker
Adjectives inflected like contingent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French contingent (whence con- and -ent), from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).
Verbs referencing "contingent"
Finnish Adjectives
kontingentti.