Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Serving to separate or divide.
- adj. Grammar Serving to establish a relationship of contrast or opposition. The conjunction but in the phrase poor but comfortable is disjunctive.
- adj. Logic Of a proposition that presents two or more alternative terms.
- adj. Logic Of a syllogism that contains a disjunction as one premise.
- n. Grammar A disjunctive conjunction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing: as, a disjunctive conjunction.
- Incapable of joining or uniting.
- Comprising or marked by a disjunction or separation of parts.
- In music, pertaining to disjunct tetrachords: as, a disjunctive interval
- n. In grammar, a word that disjoins; a disjunctive conjunction, as or, nor, neither.
- n. In logic, a disjunctive proposition.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not connected. Separated
- adj. Of a personal pronoun, not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, examples:
- n. logic A disjunction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
- adj. (Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords.
- n. (Gram.) A disjunctive conjunction.
- n. (Logic) A disjunctive proposition.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. serving or tending to divide or separate
Examples
“This is what I call disjunctive politics, i.e., politics in which choices are made by the disjunctive syllogism: A or B; not A; therefore, B.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on Sarah Palin and Going Rogue
“In French, Louis XIV did not say L’état, c’est je; French has what they call the disjunctive pronoun so they can say C’est moi and Il est plus grand que moi.”
“Sections 3 to 7 of this article attend to the notion of disjunctive and conjunctive predicates.”
“(later called disjunctive properties) prove extremely useful for increasing our metaphysical knowledge.”
“Like Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama's election will follow what Stephen Skowronek described as "disjunctive" presidencies, those in which the presidents went so wayward, and economic conditions became so unacceptable, that the American people called for and accepted wholesale political revolution.”
“His earliest compositions were songs for a former prog-rock band; the songs were "disjunctive" even for that free-form style, he said.”
“Whittington brightens the dark moments in Skowronek's model — for example, omitting the category of "disjunctive" presidencies, failed attempts at affiliation — as he refines it to explain the development of judicial supremacy.”
“Obama is just as evil as Bush. (1+3, disjunctive syllogism)”
“Within this comes the central problem – a disjunctive between individual rights and their emphasis on the negative effects of indivdualisation causing the so-called ‘broken society’.”
“Duchamp's combinations are deliberately disjunctive.”
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