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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

instrumental

/in-struh-men-tl/US // ˌɪn strəˈmɛn tl //UK // (ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəl) //

工具性的,工具性,器乐,器物性的

Related Words

involved涉及的,涉及到的,涉及,涉及的问题active积极,积极的,活跃,活跃的auxiliary辅助性,辅助性的,辅助的,辅助conducive有利于,有利的,有利,有利于的helpful有帮助的,有用的,有益的,有助于helping帮助,帮忙,帮助别人,助serviceable好用的,可使用的,适用的,可用的subsidiary附属机构,附属公司,附属,附属的useful有用的,有用,好用,好用的contributory缴费,贡献,贡献者,缴费型

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful.
    • : performed on or written for a musical instrument or instruments: instrumental music.
    • : of or relating to an instrument or tool.
    • : Grammar. noting or pertaining to a case having as its distinctive function the indication of means or agency, as Old English beseah blīthe andweitan “looked with a happy countenance.”noting the affix or other element characteristic of this case, or a word containing such an element.similar to such a case form in function or meaning, as the Latin instrumental ablative, gladiō, “by means of a sword.” pertaining to the semantic role of a noun phrase that indicates the inanimate, nonvolitional, immediate cause of the action expressed by a verb, as the rock in The rock broke the window or in I broke the window with the rock.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Grammar. the instrumental case.a word in the instrumental case.a construction of similar meaning.
    • : a musical composition played by an instrument or a group of instruments.Compare vocal.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.influential, assisting
Synonyms
involved涉及的,涉及到的,涉及,涉及的问题active积极,积极的,活跃,活跃的auxiliary辅助性,辅助性的,辅助的,辅助conducive有利于,有利的,有利,有利于的contributory缴费,贡献,贡献者,缴费型helpful有帮助的,有用的,有益的,有助于helping帮助,帮忙,帮助别人,助of help的帮助,的帮助下of service服务的,服务,服务内容,服务范围partly responsible部分责任,部分负责,部分责任人,部份责任serviceable好用的,可使用的,适用的,可用的subsidiary附属机构,附属公司,附属,附属的useful有用的,有用,好用,好用的

Examples

  • Teenagers were instrumental in leading many of the racial justice protests across San Diego County over the summer.

  • Meanwhile, Kavadze adds, Georgia’s rich natural beauty will be more instrumental than ever.

  • Google My Business has been instrumental in driving customers to a local business.

  • What’s more, instrumental employees who analyze air samples from the sensitive equipment are on vacation.

  • Whatever the company’s formula, it seems it will be instrumental to making Elon Musk’s vision of a million-mile battery come true, and sooner rather than later.

  • You write quite a lot about your relationship with your mother and how she was instrumental in your success.

  • Goebbels was also instrumental in the initial success Strauss had under the Nazis.

  • The instrumental view of culture has it wrong, she argues, and should be replaced with what she calls an “expressive view.”

  • And in 1939, the MOMA building opened that he was instrumental in designing and building.

  • “It sounds like the kind of decision that a candidate and a campaign would be instrumental in shaping,” she said.

  • The Duke of Tarentum was mainly instrumental in saving the remnants of the army which had managed to cross the Elster.

  • This discovery and invention has been largely instrumental in the rapid development of sound recording.

  • Thus, contributions to vocal music, instrumental music and musical forms have been made by natives and residents of Virginia.

  • If she had been instrumental in the death of Sir Herbert, surely this was just the way she would conduct herself.

  • His present rather ridiculous discomfort he had been at least instrumental in bringing on himself.

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