Definition of CONJUNCTIVE

conjunctive

Meanings

Plural: conjunctives

Noun

  • an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
  • A conjunction.
  • The subjunctive.
  • A conjunction.

Adjective

  • serving or tending to connect

Adjective Satellite

  • involving the joint activity of two or more
    • "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"

Adj

  • Connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
  • Connected: being joined, united, connected.
  • Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude).
  • Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
  • Relating to the conjunctive mood.
  • Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
  • Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
  • Of or relating to logical conjunction.
  • Closely united.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin coniunctivus (“serving to connect”), from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere; compare conjoin. From late 15th c; grammatical sense from 1660s.

Antonyms

disjunct, disjunctive

Scrabble Score: 25

conjunctive is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
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Words With Friends Score: 33

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