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disjunctive
[ dis-juhngk-tiv ]
adjective
- serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
- Grammar.
- syntactically setting two or more expressions in opposition to each other, as but in poor but happy, or expressing an alternative, as or in this or that.
- not syntactically dependent upon some particular expression.
- Logic.
- characterizing propositions that are disjunctions.
- (of a syllogism) containing at least one disjunctive proposition as a premise.
noun
- a statement, course of action, etc., involving alternatives.
- Logic. disjunction ( def 2a ).
- Grammar. a disjunctive word.
disjunctive
/ dɪsˈdʒʌŋktɪv /
adjective
- serving to disconnect or separate
- grammar
- denoting a word, esp a conjunction, that serves to express opposition or contrast: but in the sentence She was poor but she was honest
- denoting an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
- Alsoalternative logic relating to, characterized by, or containing disjunction
noun
- grammar
- a disjunctive word, esp a conjunction
- a disjunctive pronoun
- logic a disjunctive proposition; disjunction
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Derived Forms
- disˈjunctively, adverb
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Other Words From
- dis·junctive·ly adverb
- nondis·junctive adjective
- nondis·junctive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disjunctive1
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Example Sentences
Iéu (je), tu (tu), and éu (il) are used as disjunctive forms, in contrast with the French.
Or should we say that the note omitted was not Nt, but the present Parames and the interval of a tone (i.e. the disjunctive tone)?
The disjunctive forms of the pronoun are also sometimes preserved before verbs and adjectives.
Again, "the former does not belong to pure categoricals," it is simply disjunctive.
The chestnut, belonging to the order Cupuliferæ, has an extended but disjunctive natural area.
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