Instrumental is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INSTRUMENTAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a nonvocal passage of music
• a piece of (usually non-classical) music performed by instruments, with no vocals
• the instrumental case.
• a noun in the instrumental case.
• a non-vocal passage of music
ADJECTIVE:
• nonvocal
• serving as a means of pursuing an aim
• (of music) performed on instruments, with no vocals
• relating to musical instruments
• relating to an implement or measuring device
• denoting or relating to a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating a means or instrument.
• Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business.
• Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music.
• Applied to a case expressing means or agency; 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.
• relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments
• serving or acting as a means or aid
• non-vocal
• relating to something's function as a means to an end
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• serving as a crucial means, agent, or tool; of, relating to, or done with an instrument or tool

Words related to INSTRUMENTAL

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Words that contain INSTRUMENTAL

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How to use INSTRUMENTAL in a sentence

• He was known to many, to whose capture he had been directly instrumental.
• Douglass was instrumental in persuading the government to put colored soldiers on an equal footing with white soldiers, both as to pay and protection.
• Yes indeed, sir, and that man was most instrumental in reconciling and encouraging all my people in the change.
• In 1841 he removed his residence from Michilimackinack to the city of New York, where he was instrumental, with Mr.
• Luckily the deck did not leak, and the barrels were thus not instrumental in the raising.
• As at Wilbraham, funds ran out before the school year was completed and he left Yale and taught district school during the day and vocal and instrumental music in the evenings.
• It has been already instrumental in bringing forward many men and women to positions of influence.
• An opera is a poetical tale, or fiction, represented by vocal and instrumental music, adorned with scenes, machines, and dancing.
• He was mainly instrumental in establishing a society for the investigation of language and related subjects.
• Fossil as well as living animals engaged his attention, and in his studies of the strata around Paris he was instrumental in establishing the Tertiary formations.
• V DANCES AND DANCING The history of Dances is the history of the transition from pure vocal music to pure instrumental music.
• The entertainment took place in a great hall, which had a gallery holding many instrumental players.
• These words and signs of expression were at first used only in connection with instrumental music, but were gradually applied to vocal music also.
• Ker has been instrumental in raising up a congregation second to none in Glasgow as regards numbers and influence.
• He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1798 to 1801, and was instrumental in restoring peace to that country, then distracted by rebellion.
• He loved both vocal and instrumental music, and was a constant attendant on opera and concert.
• The usual grammar-school and high-school courses are taught to all the students, also swimming and dancing and music, both vocal and instrumental.
• I hope to be instrumental in imparting new ideas to all, no matter how much knowledge they may have stored away.
• Flowers were strewn on the surface of the water, and the vaulted roof rang with music, vocal, and instrumental.
• At the present moment our instrumental art has, in this particular, fallen under the tyranny of piano manufacturers and makers of wind instruments.
• The Southern climate had suited him, and the boat which caused his death had in the mean while been instrumental in developing his life.
• All functions, in such chaotic lives, seem instrumental functions.
• Were language such a set of signals it would be something merely instrumental, which if made perfect ought to be automatic and unconscious.
• Whatever original energy may be supposed either in force or regulation, the operation of both is, in truth, merely instrumental.
• I hope I was instrumental to some degree in her banishment.
• Several of the young people of our church, including some of the converts, were instrumental in leading a number to the Saviour.
• They have a stronger objection, if it be possible, to vocal, than to instrumental music.
• It was my privilege to be instrumental in saving Mr.

Similar words containing STRUMENT without suffix al and without prefix in

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