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conjunctive

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: conjunctive

1
 adjn
serving or tending to connect
an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
2
 adj
involving the joint activity of two or more
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: conjunctive
1

adj serving or tending to connect

Synonyms
copulative
syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence
connective
connecting or tending to connect
Antonyms:
disjunctive
serving or tending to divide or separate
adversative, oppositive
expressing antithesis or opposition
alternative
necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
contrastive
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
divisional
serving to divide or marking a division
partitive, separative
serving to separate or divide into parts
separative
(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
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n an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

Synonyms:
conjunction, connective, continuative
Types:
coordinating conjunction
a conjunction (like `and' or `or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents
subordinate conjunction, subordinating conjunction
a conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause
Type of:
closed-class word, function word
a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
2

adj involving the joint activity of two or more

“the conjunctive focus of political opposition”
Synonyms:
concerted, conjunct, cooperative
joint
united or combined
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