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conjunctive

[kuh n-juhngk-tiv]
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adjective
  1. serving to connect; connective: conjunctive tissue.
  2. conjoined; joint: a conjunctive action.
  3. Grammar.
    1. (of a mode) subjunctive.
    2. (of a pronoun) conjunct.
    3. of the nature of a conjunction.
    4. (of an adverb) serving to connect two clauses or sentences, as however or furthermore.
  4. Logic. characterizing propositions that are conjunctions.
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noun
  1. Grammar. a conjunctive word; a conjunction.
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Origin of conjunctive

1400–50; late Middle English conjunctif < Late Latin conjunctīvus. See conjunct, -ive
Related formscon·junc·tive·ly, adverbnon·con·junc·tive, adjectivenon·con·junc·tive·ly, adverbsub·con·junc·tive, adjectivesub·con·junc·tive·ly, adverbun·con·junc·tive, adjective
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Related Words

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Examples from the Web for conjunctive

Historical Examples

  • The sign of the conditional is ḥe or ḥ; that of the conjunctive ḷe or ḷ.

    Opuscula

    Robert Gordon Latham

  • She waited a moment for him to express the limitation which the conjunctive implied.

    Carmen Ariza

    Charles Francis Stocking

  • That percept was what I meant, for into it my idea has passed by conjunctive experiences of sameness and fulfilled intention.

  • But a comma is not sufficient before a conjunctive adverb like therefore.

  • Here also exhaustion is a conjunctive cause, for overexertion can not be long continued without exhaustion.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

    United States Department of Agriculture

British Dictionary definitions for conjunctive

conjunctive

adjective
  1. joining; connective
  2. joined
  3. of or relating to conjunctions or their use
  4. logic relating to, characterized by, or containing a conjunction
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noun
  1. a less common word for conjunction (def. 3)
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Derived Formsconjunctively, adverb

Word Origin

C15: from Late Latin conjunctīvus, from Latin conjungere to conjoin
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Word Origin and History for conjunctive

adj.

late 15c., from Latin coniunctivus "serving to connect," from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere (see conjoin). Grammatical sense is from 1660s.

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