Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Joined together; united.
- adj. Acting in association; combined: "the conjunct . . . influences of fire and strong drink” ( Thomas Love Peacock).
- adj. Music Of or relating to successive tones of the scale, moving step by step: conjunct motion; a conjunct melody.
- n. One that is in conjunction or association with another.
- n. Logic One of the components of a conjunction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Conjoined; conjoint; united; associated; concurrent.
- n. A combination; an association; a union.
Wiktionary
- n. logic Either term of a conjunction
- n. linguistics An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content, that connects the sentence with previous parts of the discourse, as "therefore" in "It was raining. Therefore, we didn't go swimming."
- adj. conjoined
- adj. acting together; collaborative
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Archaic United; conjoined; concurrent.
- adj. (Her.) Same as Conjoined.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. bound in close association
- adj. progressing melodically by intervals of a second
- adj. involving the joint activity of two or more
Etymologies
- Latin conjunctus, past participle. See conjoin. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin coniūnctus, past participle of coniungere, to join together; see conjoin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In short, if a man comprehends the watch in a rational way he must comprehend it in what may he called a conjunct way.”
“When two planets are near each other as pictured they are considered "conjunct".”
“They may physically join together as a "conjunct," or ligature, a process called samyoga (meaning "yoked together" in”
“The book had to be written by Captain Kangaroo, what with his penis, vagina and dream planets conjunct in Leo with his cherry red chipper dapper coat to match.”
“The conjunct statement said that they "will continue our advocacyagainst the provisions of SB 1070 and will monitor the implementation of the provisions allowed bythe ruling.”
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“It is also conjunct my midheaven, give or take a minuite of arc or two.”
“Exaltation is when the natal Sun is conjunct the natural ruler of the sign that the Sun is resident in.”
“Planets conjunct the nadir show powers and abilities.”
“Planets conjunct the mid heaven show powers and abilities over others.”
“Mad Cow in west sussex, england Dec 22, 1984-a new moon conjunct Neptune.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conjunct’.
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Joined or Conjoined
Adjectives meaning joined or conjoined
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harmony of the spheres
tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone, progression, sonata, concerto, allegro and 247 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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King Lear
Some less-than-common words, significant themes, or excellent phrases from my favourite play.
moiety, brazed, champain, felicitate, interess, propinquity, betwixt, sith, forevouch, wat'rish, benison, ingraff and 111 more...
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Word words
dysphemism, euphemism, diphthong, diphthongization, ablaut, apophony, ablative, acronym, triphthong, underextension, epenthesis, conjunct and 7 more...
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Connection (state of being connected)
Words meaning state of being connected.
copula, link, connection, junction, union, ligation, conjunction, linkage, fusion, conjuncture, conjunct, bridge and 1 more...
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participation
parade, pare, parlay, parry, parure, apparatus, apparel, comprador, disparate, emperor, imperative, imperator and 86 more...
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slumry An adverb with a chiefly connecting function; a conjunctive adverb Jul 25, 2007