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What is the adjective for instruments?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs instrument, instrumentalise and instrumentalize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

instrumental
  1. Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.
  2. (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument.
  3. (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. influential, contributory, active, involved, useful, helpful, important, significant, advance, conducive, forward, further, help, promote, auxiliary, cause, helping, serviceable, subsidiary, of assistance, of help, add to, contribute to, of use, be responsible for, lead to, make for, of service, be a factor in, be conducive to, be partly responsible for, conduce to, have a hand in, partly responsible, play a part in, give rise to, oil the wheels of, open the door for, causative, causal, contributing, pivotal, fundamental, underlying, connecting, contributive, melodious, melodic, tuneful, musical … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Ship logbooks were highly instrumental in the discovery of a hurricane in Florida.”
      “The second Berlin fragment is an instrumental piece of three lines.”
      “The majority of Wagner's symphonic or purely instrumental works were never completed.”
instrumentlike
  1. Like an instrument.
instrumentary
  1. (archaic) instrumental
instrumented
  1. simple past tense and past participle of instrument
  2. Synonyms:
      3. arranged, orchestrated, scored, harmonised, harmonized, adapted, composed, symphonized, set, writ, wrote, written, rewrote, rewritten, played, strummed, blew, blown, sounded, bowed, drummed, fiddled, fingered, pedalled, pedaled, performed, rendered, executed, fidgeted, fidgetted, operated, worked, wrought, performed on, made music on … more
instrumenting
  1. present participle of instrument
  2. Synonyms:
      3. arranging, orchestrating, scoring, harmonising, harmonizing, adapting, composing, symphonizing, setting, writing, rewriting, playing, strumming, blowing, sounding, bowing, drumming, fiddling, fingering, pedalling, pedaling, performing, rendering, executing, fidgeting, fidgetting, operating, working, performing on, making music on … more
instrumentalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of instrumentalise
instrumentalising
  1. present participle of instrumentalise
instrumentalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of instrumentalize
instrumentalizing
  1. present participle of instrumentalize
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