Usually means: Tool used to achieve goals.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word instrumental:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. instrumental: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. instrumental, the instrumental: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instrumental: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. instrumental: Collins English Dictionary
  5. instrumental: Vocabulary.com
  6. Instrumental, instrumental: Wordnik
  7. instrumental: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. instrumental: Wiktionary
  9. instrumental: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. instrumental: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. instrumental: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. instrumental: Dictionary.com
  13. instrumental: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Instrumental (My Bloody Valentine song), Instrumental (disambiguation), Instrumental (song), Instrumental: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Instrumental: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. instrumental: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. instrumental: Rhymezone
  18. instrumental, instrumental: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. instrumental: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. instrumental: Free Dictionary
  21. instrumental: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. instrumental: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. instrumental: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. instrumental: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. instrumental: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. instrumental: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instrumental: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. instrumental: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instrumental: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instrumental: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See instrumentally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
adjective:  Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency.
adjective:  (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
adjective:  (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective.
noun:  (grammar) The instrumental case.
noun:  (music) A composition written or performed without lyrics or singing, using a lead instrument to replace vocals.

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