Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Joining; connective.
- adj. Joined together; combined: the conjunctive focus of political opposition.
- adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a conjunction.
- adj. Grammar Serving to connect elements of meaning and construction within sentences, as and and since, or between sentences, as therefore.
- n. Grammar A connective word, especially a conjunction or conjunctive adverb.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Closely connected or united.
- Connecting; connective; uniting; serving to connect or unite.
- n. In grammar, the conjunctive mode. See above.
- n. In mathematics, the sum of rational integral functions, each affected by an arbitrary multiplier. The sum is said to be the conjunctive of the functions.
Wiktionary
- adj. grammar relating to a conjunction
- adj. grammar 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
- adj. grammar, of a verb Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
- adj. logic of or relating to logical conjunction
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving to unite; connecting together.
- adj. obsolete Closely united.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. involving the joint activity of two or more
- adj. serving or tending to connect
- n. an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
Examples
“The term conjunctive use does not necessarily imply that the groundwater utilized originates from seepage from the surface supply in the area concerned, although it may often do so.”
“Conjunctive Faith: Sometime around 35 or 40 or beyond some people undergo a change to what we call conjunctive faith, which is a kind of midlife way of being in faith.”
Fully Human, Fully Divine: James Fowler and Evelyn Underhill
“Publishers by Perskor and the right to use the Kagiso name conjunctive to publishing, printing and the printed media.”
“These words are more formally known as conjunctive adverbs when used to connect two clauses.”
“Compound universals (such as conjunctive ones, and disjunctive ones if they exist) no doubt dependR for their existence upon the universals out of which they are compounded.”
“So the primary options for its meaning here are either adverbial intensity or some kind of conjunctive use, since it is unlikely introducing the rare rhetorical question.”
“Change taking place' is a unique content of experience, one of those 'conjunctive' objects which radical empiricism seeks so earnestly to rehabilitate and preserve.”
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
“conjunctive" signs and the signs that separate words and the thought of them are called”
“Evidently, some companies can recover the costs through other means and conjunctive opportunities, make possible, by providing the normal uncap internet access.”
“We need to continue to invest in emerging and innovative technologies, including recycled water plants, conjunctive use projects, water efficiency measures, low impact design, grey water systems and rainwater catchment.”
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